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

[John Summerfield]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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.

Okay, this looks like I'm on the right path:

virsh --connect qemu:///system list --all

Should I file a bug report for this to be clarified in the man page?




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