How to allow regular users to fully control virtual machines under KVM hypervisor?

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Issue

Regular users are unable to use libvirt tools to control the KVM hypervisor.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 & 6
  • KVM Hypervisor
  • libvirt

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