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man: virt-admin: Mention monolithic daemon URIs

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Hint users that they can use 'virt-admin' also for the new monolithic
daemons.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2038045
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
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Peter Krempa 2022-01-20 16:20:22 +01:00
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@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ The ``virt-admin`` program understands the following *OPTIONS*.
``-c``, ``--connect`` *URI*
Connect to the specified *URI*, as if by the ``connect`` command,
instead of the default connection.
instead of the default connection. See `NOTES`_.
``-d``, ``--debug`` *LEVEL*
@ -90,7 +90,14 @@ virt-admin is coming from.
NOTES
=====
Running ``virt-admin`` requires root privileges due to the
The ``virt-admin`` supports both the monolithic ``libvirtd`` daemon and the
`modular daemons <https://www.libvirt.org/daemons.html#modular-driver-daemons>`__
whichever is in use by your system. The connection *URI* used with
``-c/--connect`` or the `connect`_ command is based on the name of the
controlled daemon e.g.: ``virtqemud:///system``, ``libvirtd:///system``.
Running ``virt-admin`` requires root privileges when communicating with the
system instance of a daemon (*URI* ending in ``/system``) due to the
communications channels used to talk to the daemon.
GENERIC COMMANDS
@ -194,6 +201,8 @@ If *LIBVIRT_ADMIN_DEFAULT_URI* or *uri_default* (see below) were set,
active connection is executed. Note that this only applies if there is no
connection at all or there is an inactive one.
See `NOTES`_ on picking the correct *URI* corresponding to a libvirt daemon.
To find the currently used URI, check the *uri* command documented below.