Comment 6 for bug 1784001

Hi Jeff,
what I tried to outline before for virsh applies to virt-manager as well as they are all just libvirt frontends.

So the default of qemu:///system will be a system owned guest with all the implications (good and bad) that come with it.

If you want to run "as user" it should be qemu:///session as shown above.
The same works for virt-manager.
You can go to "File -> Add connection" and enter "qemu:///session" as custom URL.
With a guest started like that I have:
- running qemu-system-x86_64 as my UID
  F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
  2 1000 11683 1 20 0 1856652 333760 poll_s Sl ? 3:51 qemu-sys...
- my disk image still self-owned
  -rw------- 1 paelzer paelzer 16108814336 Aug 10 07:34
  /home/paelzer/.local/share/libvirt/images/qemu-session-18.04.qcow2

As I mentioned before user session comes OTOH with other implications.
The one I heard most about are issues with networking that needs different setup and some help to get working depending on the network setup.

My default case - install from 18.04 ISO in virt-manager with qemu:///session that I just tried worked for me (including network to external sites).