In a previous article I
mentioned how to install a library in Fedora, in order to make
KVM virtualization easier, managing the NAT network configuration
between the guest virtual machine and the host, by means of libvirt.
Besides that, while using KVM locally for development, I use
virt-manager, a helpful application that manages the different virtual
machines. This application, as well as the rest of the commands that
interact with libvirt (virsh for example), require super user
privileges, so it will prompt for the sudo password every time.
This can be avoided by including the user into the following groups:
kvm, and libvirt.
Therefore, just by running the following command we can skip the password prompt every time.
sudo usermod -a -G kvm,libvirt mariano
This is an option I would use only for local development on my machine. Productive environments must have an strict permissions management.