Comment 29 for bug 523148

That only solves one single use case, that of a single local desktop user accessing the console of a guest running under qemu:///system instance.

The goal is that desktop virt should not use qemu:///system at all in the near future, instead using qemu:///session, at which point all VMs would be running as the user's own UID in the first place.

For better serial console access in general, we want to add a API to libvirt, so that apps don't need to access the files directly at all, whether local or remote, whether privileged or unprivileged.

In parallel, we're also aiming to provide a way to tunnel the character devices over the VNC console connection.

I don't really want to add chown'ing as a short term hack for this one use case that we're aiming to deprecated, but rather concentrate on the long term viable solutions.