<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <<a href="mailto:berrange@redhat.com" target="_blank">berrange@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 08:37:54AM -0700, hiren panchasara wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <<a href="mailto:berrange@redhat.com">berrange@redhat.com</a>>wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:15:56PM -0700, hiren panchasara wrote: > > > I've installed libvirt-0.9.13 from ports on my freebsd machine. > > > > > > I started libvirtd: > > > > > > $ ps awwux | grep libvirtd > > > root 11470 0.0 0.4 103100 31948 - I 10:41PM 0:00.35 > > > libvirtd -v -d > > > > > > $ sudo virsh --connect qemu:///system > > > error: no connection driver available for No connection for URI > > > qemu:///system > > > error: failed to connect to the hypervisor > > > > > > I am sure I am missing something obvious. > > > > > > Try collecting some debugging output using > > > > LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 sudo virsh --connect qemu:///system > > > > It should give a better idea why it failed. > > > > Not getting any useful info: > > $ ps awwux | grep libvirtd > root 3396 0.0 0.4 103100 32248 - I 8:24AM 0:01.05 > libvirtd -v -d > > $ LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 sudo virsh --connect qemu:///system > error: no connection driver available for No connection for URI > qemu:///system > error: failed to connect to the hypervisor > > Tried 1-4 debug levels with the same response. </div></div>Sounds like sudo is stripping the env variable. Try running it as root directly, without sudo. </blockquote><div> Aah, right, o/p is huge so putting it in pastebin: <a href="http://pastebin.com/YVrK0fRb">http://pastebin.com/YVrK0fRb</a> Thanks a lot, Hiren </div></div>