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Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
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Cole Robinson 756e6ab467 Allow polkit auth for VNC and SSH users 
If you are sitting in front of a physical machine and logged in as
a regular user, you can connect to the system libvirtd instance
by providing a root password to policykit. This is how most
virt-manager users talk to libvirt.

However, if you are launching virt-manager over ssh -X, or over
VNC started from say /etc/sysconfig/vncservers, our policykit policy
rejects the user outright, providing no option to provide the root
password. This is confusing to users and doesn't seem to serve much
point.

Change the policy to allow inactive (VNC) and non-local (SSH, VNC)
to provide root credentials for accessing system libvirtd. We use
auth_admin rather than auth_admin_keep so that credentials aren't
cached at all, and every subsequent reconnection to libvirt requires
auth.

Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625115
Similar change to PackageKit policy:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528511
2012-02-07 11:59:35 -05:00
.gnulib@e9e8aba12a Update gnulib to fix mingw64 compilation errors 2012-02-01 17:37:45 -07:00
daemon Allow polkit auth for VNC and SSH users 2012-02-07 11:59:35 -05:00
docs Clarify the purpose of domxml-from-native 2012-02-06 15:57:34 -07:00
examples maint: consolidate several .gitignore files 2012-02-03 15:27:16 -07:00
gnulib build: update to latest gnulib 2012-01-12 15:47:54 -07:00
include maint: consolidate several .gitignore files 2012-02-03 15:27:16 -07:00
m4 build: silence some compiler warnings from gnulib 2012-01-19 13:14:10 -07:00
po util: rename netlink.[ch] to virnetlink.[ch] 2012-02-03 15:27:40 -05:00
python pyhton: Don't link against libvirt_util.la 2012-02-07 13:30:42 +01:00
src build: avoid gcc 4.7 warning about inlines 2012-02-06 20:06:37 -07:00
tests seclabel: make code and RNG match 2012-02-06 12:04:33 -07:00
tools virsh: Fix resource leak while listing inactive domains with titles 2012-02-06 15:25:05 +01:00
.dir-locals.el maint: let emacs avoid tabs in rng files 2011-08-13 08:56:26 -06:00
.gitignore maint: Add test output files to .gitignore 2012-02-06 18:27:40 +01:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.mailmap maint: prune duplicate listings in AUTHORS 2012-02-03 09:56:45 -07:00
AUTHORS Update myself in AUTHORS 2012-02-06 23:39:18 +08:00
autobuild.sh Disable python explicitly in mingw32 autobuild 2011-12-19 13:44:18 +00:00
autogen.sh build: allow for local gnulib diffs 2011-11-09 09:03:33 -07:00
bootstrap Update gnulib to fix mingw64 compilation errors 2012-02-01 17:37:45 -07:00
bootstrap.conf Replace hashing algorithm with murmurhash 2012-01-26 14:18:53 +00:00
cfg.mk python: use libvirt_util to avoid raw free 2012-02-03 10:41:47 -07:00
ChangeLog-old virterror.c: Fix several spelling mistakes 2012-02-03 11:32:51 -07:00
configure.ac storage: Support different wiping algorithms 2012-01-26 13:59:30 +01:00
COPYING.LIB remove all trailing blank lines 2009-07-16 15:06:42 +02:00
HACKING Document STREQ_NULLABLE and STRNEQ_NULLABLE 2011-10-06 16:50:38 +02:00
libvirt.pc.in * libvirt.pc.in: applied patch from Daniel Berrange to fix --cflags 2006-03-24 13:18:12 +00:00
libvirt.spec.in Add a virt-host-validate command to sanity check HV config 2012-01-27 17:53:18 +00:00
Makefile.am maint: add missing copyright notices 2011-07-28 15:01:17 -06:00
Makefile.nonreentrant Ban use of all inet_* functions 2010-10-22 11:59:23 +01:00
mingw32-libvirt.spec.in Add virt-host-validate.1 to Mingw32 RPM spec file list 2012-01-30 12:03:30 +00:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
README-hacking maint: relax git minimum version 2010-02-24 14:29:27 -05:00
TODO Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website 2010-10-13 16:45:26 +01:00

README 

         LibVirt : simple API for virtualization

  Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.

Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>