[et-mgmt-tools] Packaging virt-manager for forsightlinux

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:16:13PM +0100, Lance Haig wrote:
> I am trying to package virt-manager, virtinst and virt-viewer for foresight 
> linux.

(As background, Foresight Linux uses the Conary package manager as
written by rPath:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conary_%28package_manager%29)

> I have been able to package virt-manager and virtinst. When I run 
> virt-manager and try to connect to the local machine with kvm/qemu 
> installed it gives me a traceback about libvirtd not running.
>
> I have libvirt installed as I can run kvm/qemu machines without much fuss.

Before launching into virt-manager, start with the basics.  What do
these commands say?

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

Rich.

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