how to start qemu:///system hypervisor?

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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


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