how to start qemu:///system hypervisor? [SOLVED]

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, poma wrote:

> On 12.09.2014 12:07, drago01 wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Robert P. J. Day
> > <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >>   i suspect this has an easy answer but playing with virtualization
> >> for the first time in a while, installed what i think are all the
> >> necessary packages, and just want to test virt-manager, so i run
> >>
> >>  $ virt-manager
> >>
> >> am prompted for password, then:
> >>
> >>   "Unable to connect to libvirt.
> >>    no connection driver available for qemu:///system"
> >>
> >> and the VMM window displays:
> >>
> >>   "localhost (QEMU) - Not Connected"
> >>
> >> is this a permission problem? have i not started the appropriate
> >> system unit?
> >>
> >>   i've already done a group install of "virtualization", i can see the
> >> appropriate modules are loaded on this intel quad core i7:
> >>
> >> $ lsmod | grep kvm
> >> kvm_intel             152115  0
> >> kvm                   492841  1 kvm_intel
> >> $
> >>
> >>   what embarrassingly obvious step have i overlooked? thanks.
> >
> > systemctl start libvirtd.service
> >
>
> $ systemctl is-enabled libvirtd.service
> enabled
>
> $ systemctl is-active libvirtd.service
> active
>
> $ rpm -qf /usr/lib64/libvirt/connection-driver/libvirt_driver_qemu.so
> libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-1.2.8-1.fc21.x86_64

  oddly, all of the above was true (except that i have the fc22
version of that last package), but i just stopped libvirtd.service,
started it again, and all is well. *sigh*. no idea why that fixed
things. onward ...

rday

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