Comment 18 for bug 187048

Thanks Soren - better error messages would, I think, satisfy everyone here.
Your efforts are truly appreciated.

Could the fix be applied to Hardy though? This seems like a usability bug,
and would be nice to have fixed in the Hardy's cycle.

Mike

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Soren Hansen <email address hidden> wrote:

> You do not need to be a member of those two groups.
>
> You need membership of libvirtd to manage the system-wide libvirtd
> instance (qemu:///system), and you need membership of kvm to run virtual
> machines as yourself (qemu:///session). If you're using virt-manager for
> other purposes, you don't even need to be a member of either.
>
> For intrepid, I'll make sure the error messages are more helpful. I will
> not, however, be automatically adding users to any of these groups.
>
> --
> virDomainCreateLinux() failed Timed out while reading console startup
> output
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187048
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