no way to connect to qemu:///system via virt-manager gui

[thefish]

Binary package hint: virt-manager

There does not seem to be a way to connect to qemu:///system via the virt-manager gui, once can only use the --connect argument from the command line to do so.

To reproduce:
Be a member of libvirtd
Open virt-manager
Click File > Open Connection
Choose QEMU and Local, Click Connect
Notice that you have connected to localhost (user) and not localhost (system)
Quit virt-manager
Open virt-manager by command line `virt-manager -c qemu:///system`
Notice that you now have localhost (System) and now have useful network settings when you add machines

Expected/Wished:
It would be nice to have an extra item in the dropdown for local(system) and local(session/user) to solve this.

virt-manager v0.5.3 on Ubuntu 8.04.1

[Nick Barcet (nijaba)]

Confirming this usability issue. One must connect once through the command line for the localhost (system) to appear in the list.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

You can change this via gconf-editor. The key is:
/apps/virt-manager/connections/uris

Just use:
qemu:///system

and it will work fine.

[Alvin (alvind)]

Looks like this one is fixed. I see Localhost (System) by default in Jaunty. (virt-manager 0.6.1)

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

This was fixed in Jaunty.