[libvirt-users] libvirtd service not starting

Jonathan Rurka
Wed, 23 Sep 2015 23:00:34 -0000

Hello, I'm new to using libvirt. After a few days of installing and removing
libvirt, virt-manager and a few others to get VT-d working with a virtual
machine, I finally got the latest virt-manager and libvirt installed from source
to get the most recent versions. However, when I start up virt-manager I get a
popup saying "Unable to connect to libvirt; Verify that the
'libvirtd' deamon is running.". When running "service libvirtd
start", I get an error saying libvirtd.service cannot be found. I can,
however, use libvirtd from the command line. The service file does not exist
in /lib/systemd/system/.

log from launching with "./virt-manager --debug":
jon@jon-desktop:/media/jon/Data/Programs/virt-manager$ ./virt-manager
--debug[Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:59:22 virt-manager 3904] DEBUG (cli:256) Launched
with command line: ./virt-manager --debug[Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:59:22 virt-manager
3904] DEBUG (virt-manager:160) virt-manager version: 1.2.1[Wed, 23 Sep 2015
15:59:22 virt-manager 3904] DEBUG (virt-manager:161) virtManager import:
<module 'virtManager' from
'/media/jon/Data/Programs/virt-manager/virtManager/__init__.pyc'>[Wed,
23 Sep 2015 15:59:22 virt-manager 3904] DEBUG (virt-manager:220) GTK version:
3.14.13[Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:59:22 virt-manager 3904] DEBUG (engine:467)
libguestfs inspection support: False[Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:59:22 virt-manager
3904] DEBUG (systray:153) Showing systray: False[Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:59:22
virt-manager 3904] DEBUG (engine:237) About to connect to uris
['qemu:///system'][Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:59:22 virt-manager 3904] DEBUG
(manager:208) Showing manager[Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:59:22 virt-manager 3904] DEBUG
(engine:368) window counter incremented to 1[Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:59:22
virt-manager 3904] DEBUG (connection:567) conn=qemu:///system changed to
state=Connecting[Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:59:22 virt-manager 3904] DEBUG
(connection:886) Scheduling background open thread for qemu:///system[Wed, 23
Sep 2015 15:59:22 virt-manager 3904] DEBUG (connection:567) conn=qemu:///system
changed to state=Disconnected[Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:59:22 virt-manager 3904] DEBUG
(error:99) error dialog message:summary=Unable to connect to libvirt.
Verify that the 'libvirtd' daemon is running.details=Unable to connect
to libvirt.
Verify that the 'libvirtd' daemon is running.
Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system
Traceback (most recent call last):  File
"/media/jon/Data/Programs/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py",
line 902, in _do_open    self._backend.open(self._do_creds_password)  File
"/media/jon/Data/Programs/virt-manager/virtinst/connection.py", line
148, in open    open_flags)  File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 105, in openAuth
  if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth()
failed')libvirtError: Failed to connect socket to
'/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': No such file or directory


Any help appreciated,Jon