Comment # 15 on bug 1177763 from James Fehlig

(In reply to Peter McDonough from comment #14)
> (In reply to John Doe from comment #9)
> > 
> > I added myself to the libvirt group to see if it would change anything but
> > the issue remains the same.
> > 
> 
> Solution: LIBVIRT GROUP to USER

There is no need to add your user to the libvirt group unless you set
auth_unix_{ro,rw} to 'none' in /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf. On SUSE distros
libvirtd uses polkit auth by default. Socket permissions on the read-only and
read-write sockets are set to 06660, allowing anyone to connect, but they are
subjected to polkit auth. The default polkit privileges allow any user to
connect to read-only socket, but only root to the read-write socket.
virt-manager connects to the read-write socket, so you should be prompted for
root passwd if running it as a normal user.

If auth on libvirtd's read-only or read-write sockets is set to 'none', then
standard unix socket permissions and group membership checks apply.

BTW, I'm clearing your needinfo since AFAIK we no longer need info from you
:-).