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

[Gary Dale]

On 06/05/10 01:19 PM, Guido Günther wrote:
> 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
>
>    
See attached. As noted, libvirtd is running (as root, process #2445 - 
/usr/sbin/libvirtd -d) so I have no idea what the problem is.
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