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...with homebrew/Mac OSX's libvirt install. On Ubuntu and CentOS virtual machines, installing "libvirt-daemon" and friends, I end up with various "-sock" files in /var/run/libvirt. This seems sensible. After installing on MacOS X with homebrew ls /usr/local/var/run/libvirt hostdevmgr lockd qemu storage so perhaps it isn't surprising that virsh -c vbox:/// fails. Am I right in believing that the lack of -sock files means that the "brew services start libvirt" is either misconfigured or otherwise failing?

I ran into an odd problem today. I wanted to share it here in the hopes of maybe saving someone else some lost time. When you run libvirtd as an unprivileged user (e.g., if you target qemu:///session from a non-root account), then libvirt will open a unix domain socket in one of two places: - If XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is defined, then inside $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/libvirt/libvirt-sock - If

...d-ro.socket loaded active running Libvirt libxl local read-only socket virtxend.socket loaded active running Libvirt libxl local socket /tree /run/libvirt/ /run/libvirt/ ??? hostdevmgr ??? libvirt-admin-sock ??? libvirt-sock ??? libvirt-sock-ro ??? libxl ??? ??? autostarted ??? ??? Domain-0.xml ??? ??? driver.pid ??? network ??? ??? autostarted ??? ??? nwfilter.leases ??? nodedev ??? nwfilter ??? nwfilter-binding ??? qemu ??? ??? autostarted ??? ??...