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howtos:emulators:helper_script_for_managing_qemu_virtual_machines [2016/09/01 09:14 (UTC)] – [Using Qemu from Unprivileged Users] louigi600howtos:emulators:helper_script_for_managing_qemu_virtual_machines [2016/09/02 08:04 (UTC)] – [Sources] louigi600
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   User_Alias QEMUERS = al, john, jack   User_Alias QEMUERS = al, john, jack
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   Cmnd_Alias QEMUCMD = /usr/bin/qemu-system-*   Cmnd_Alias QEMUCMD = /usr/bin/qemu-system-*
      
   QEMUERS ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: QEMU   QEMUERS ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: QEMU
  
-This would be sufficient to run the VMs as any of the unprivileged users in QEMUERS user alias (al, john, jack).+This would be sufficient to run the VMs as any of the unprivileged users in QEMUERS user alias (al, john, jack) but the management script would need to run sudo qemu-system-* .... this is easy to obtain: 
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 +  [ $(/usr/bin/id -u) -ne 0 ] && CMD="sudo qemu-system-.... " || CMD="qemu-system-...." 
 +  eval $(echo "$CMD &") 
 + 
 +Alternatively you could give privileges to execute the management script as root.
 ===== Examples ===== ===== Examples =====
 Here are examples of the dialogs that user would see wile creating, starting, stopping and deleting a VM. Here are examples of the dialogs that user would see wile creating, starting, stopping and deleting a VM.
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 ====== Sources ====== ====== Sources ======
 +I've a blog entry on LQ where I talk a little more extensively on minimizing the code in bash scripts.
 +[[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/louigi600-808242/minimize-the-amount-of-code-in-your-bash-scripts-37137/|Minimize the amount of code in your bash scripts ]]
  
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