Whats the connection string your using? Also Id recommend not using root and giving a normal user account full libvirt control via policykit. I have an example here, <a href="http://itscblog.tamu.edu/startup-guide-for-kvm-on-centos-6/">http://itscblog.tamu.edu/startup-guide-for-kvm-on-centos-6/</a> . - Trey <div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 28, 2011 1:34 PM, "Shaun Glass" <<a href="mailto:shaunglass@gmail.com" target="_blank">shaunglass@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Good day All, I have experienced the following ... I have a rhel 6.1 server running qemu-kvm. I have setup my desktop for a publickey login (root user) to said server so that I may manage the server (qemu-kvm) via the desktop with virt-manager. However, I connect just fine, but cannot create vm's. I get : "No hypervisor options where found for this connection" My laptop does run qemu-kvm via virt-manager and so I decided to setup a publickey login as before and guess what ... I can create vm's. It seems virt-manager bases the creation of vm's based on the hardware / software of the machine it is launched from and not the machine it is connecting to. Is there a workaround / config change etc that can be done so that virt-manager uses the hardware / software configuration of the system it is connecting to ? Regards Shaun Glass _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list <a href="mailto:libvirt-users@redhat.com" target="_blank">libvirt-users@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users</a> </blockquote></div>