At some point in the past 10 years, https://tootloop.com/@major 's excellent tutorial about enabling normal users to manage VMs with virsh stopped working on #Fedora. I'm wondering if the move to modularized libvirt a few years back is the reason. I think #RHEL 10 is using modularized #libvirt now as well.

Not a big deal for my purposes though, as my VM launch script already requires sudo to modify /etc/hosts
#KVM #Linux #polkit
https://major.io/p/run-virsh-and-access-libvirt-as-a-regular-user/

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* También depende del entorno gráfico: #gvfs (#gnome, #xfce) o el equivalente en #kde (creo que es #kio), que suelen montar en /run/media.

* Configuraciones personalizadas de #polkit pueden hacer que los usuarios puedan montar discos en diferentes ubicaciones.

* El mismo udisks2 permite cambiar configuraciones para montar automáticamente en otros directorios.

* Y por supuesto, el montaje manual y uso de /etc/fstab puede permitirnos montar directorios no estándar.

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@berryman

I've daily-driven #OpenSuSE #Tumbleweed in the past. A coupe times, actually.

No real major complaints. Some issues were that the YaST-based installer was kind of obtuse (e.g., very easy to miss the option to set the hostname). I'm not one to hate on YaST. I don't need my configuration tool / systems-management tool to be all pretty or written in Flutter or whatever. But the installer was kind of obtuse, if featureful.

My biggest complaint is that they don't set up #PolKit out of the box, and you're expected to use the root password for things like setting up printers in the GUI. Not to be too snippy, but that was unacceptable in 2005, and it's crazy wrong-headed in 2025. But I know there's a way to set that up, so I need to look into it.

I'm very interested in OpenSuSE #SlowRoll. If that comes out in the next few months, that could be an awesome contender.

So, yeah, actually, thanks for reminding me to look into OpenSuSE some more. 

@Lycoris

I want to try #OpenSuSE #Tumbleweed again. My only turn-off from it was that zypper is a little slow as a cli package manager goes (not a huge deal), and that they didn't have #PolKit enabled by default, so setting up things like your printer required using the root password, which is brain dead.

I really hope they have that last one fixed, because it's just arguably the wrong approach, and should be treated as a bug.