[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#580439: Bug#580439: virt-manager: Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon.

[Guido Günther]

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 08:14:13PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> Package: virt-manager
> Version: 0.8.4-2
> Severity: grave
> Tags: squeeze
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> I recently reinstalled Debian/Squeeze from scratch (kept my /home
> partition though). After reinstalling virt-manager, I found that I
> was no longer able to connect to my virtual machine (a Windows XP
> raw virtual disk). When I try to connect to qemu, I get the above
> error which I was not getting before the new Squeeze install. I
> can't find any fix for it via Google (just lots of people
> experiencing the problem) and I'm a bit of newbie at virtualization.
> Qemu-kvm is able to directly launch my virtual machine and it runs
> fine, but after using virt-manager to manage the sessions, I find it
> preferrable (better mouse handling, doesn't kill the KDE
> screensaver, etc.).
Please see:
	http://wiki.debian.org/libvirt#Bugreports.2BAC8-Debugging
for some information on howto debug this.
Cheers,
 -- Guido