[Fedora-xen] error: failed to connect to the hypervisor

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 05:18:56AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> In my earlier missive I neglected to mention F8.
> 
> The following command is straight from the manual:
> [root at potoroo summer]# virsh connect qemu:///system
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor

You want  'virsh --connect qemu:///system', not plain 'connect'. The
latter is for changing the current connection when in interative
mode, but you need --connect to set the initial connection, otherwise
it'll try to use Xen.

Dan.
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