<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> libvirt-users@redhat.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, February 4, 2010 5:45:17 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [libvirt-users] virt-manager can't start<br></font><br><br>Host - Debian 5.0<br><br> - snip -<br><br>> Firstly, delete ~/.virt-manager, and let the app create it with
correct<br>> permissions. Second, make sure libvirtd is installed and running. Finally,<br>> when virt-manager is running, make sure it is connecting to the qemu:///system<br>> connection: there should be a row name 'qemu' in the main window, right click<br>> -> connect. This should ask for the root password.<br><br>> If the qemu row isn't there for some reason, you can use File->Open Connection<br>> to connect.<br><br>$ rm -rf .virt-manager<br><br>Gnome<br>Applications -> System Tools -> Virtual Machine Manager<br><br>qemu is not there instead "localhost" displayed. Clicking it drops down all VMs<br><br>Virtual Machine Manager<br>File -> No "Open Connect". Only "Add Connection"<br><br><br>$ apt-cache policy libvirt<br>W: Unable to locate package libvirt<br><br>$ apt-cache policy libvirtd<br>W: Unable to locate package libvirtd<br><br><br>$ apt-cache search libvirtd<br>No
printout<br><br>$ apt-cache search libvirt<br>collectd - statistics collection and monitoring daemon<br>libvirt-bin - the programs for the libvirt library<br>libvirt-dev - development files for the libvirt library<br>libvirt-doc - documentation for the libvirt library<br>libvirt0-dbg - library for interfacing with different virtualization systems<br>libvirt0 - library for interfacing with different virtualization systems<br>python-libvirt - libvirt Python bindings<br>libvirt-ocaml-dev - OCaml bindings for libvirt<br>libvirt-ocaml - OCaml bindings for libvirt<br>munin-libvirt-plugins - Munin plugins using libvirt<br>virtinst - Programs to create and clone virtual machines<br><br>$ apt-cache policy libvirt0<br>libvirt0:<br> Installed: 0.4.6-10<br> Candidate: 0.4.6-10<br> Version table:<br> 0.6.5-3~bpo50+1 0<br><span> 1 <a target="_blank"
href="http://www.backports.org">http://www.backports.org</a> lenny-backports/main Packages</span><br> *** 0.4.6-10 0<br><span> 500 <a target="_blank" href="http://ftp.hk.debian.org">http://ftp.hk.debian.org</a> lenny/main Packages</span><br> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status<br><br>libvirtd NOT found<br><br><br>B.R.<br>satimis<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></div>
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