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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I have a problem with the libvirt daemon. I have a little php script which should connect with libvirt, but it won’t.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>When I try to start the libvirt daemon I get this error (using the command libvirtd --listen):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2011-11-09 19:35:18.095: 3560: info : libvirt version: 0.9.7<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2011-11-09 19:35:18.095: 3560: error : virPidFileAcquirePath:345 : Failed to acquire pid file '/var/run/libvirtd.pid': Resource temporarily unavailable<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>So the daemon won’t start and isn’t started yet. If I check if the service is running with ps –ef | grep libvirtd I get this output:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>root 2865 1 0 15:50 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/libvirtd -d<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>root 3149 1 0 19:17 ? 00:00:00 libvirtd -d<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>root 3206 1 0 19:17 ? 00:00:00 libvirtd -dl<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>root 3300 1 0 19:20 ? 00:00:00 libvirtd --listen --daemon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>root 3356 1 0 19:21 ? 00:00:00 libvirtd --listen --daemon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>root 3564 3077 0 19:36 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto libvirtd<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Here you can see that the service isn’t running.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>How can I fix this problem. There is a .pid file in the /var/run/ directory. I already deleted it and used the command libvirtd –daemon –listen but it won’t start. It doesn’t show any output but when I use the ps –ef command, I see that the service is not running.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Can you please help me?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>With kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Wouter.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>