How to allow non root user to access libvirt remotely on Centos 6

Question

Default configuration according to documentation (sic!) requires root access to remote host. How to enable user access?

• Remote management with SSH

Answer 1

Ok, I found this

sudo nano /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/50-libvirt-remote-access.pkla

with content

[libvirt Management Access]    
Identity=unix-user:USER

And restart

sudo service libvirtd restart

Verification

virsh -c qemu+ssh://USER@SERVER/system sysinfo

Source: How To Install KVM And libvirt On CentOS 6.2 With Bridged Networking