Unable to open connection to hypervisor 'qemu:///system'

[Daniel Veillard]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 05:31:38AM -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> virt-manager +kvm wont load up since the last rounds of F7 updates I think.
> 
> Unable to open connection to hypervisor URI 'qemu:///system':
> <class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> virConnectOpenReadOnly() failed No such file
> or directory
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 68, in
> _connect_to_uri
>    conn = self.get_connection(uri, readOnly)
>  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 309, in
> get_connection
>    conn = vmmConnection(self.get_config(), uri, readOnly)
>  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 74, in
> __init__
>    self.vmm = libvirt.openReadOnly(openURI)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 132, in
> openReadOnly
>    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenReadOnly() failed')
> libvirtError: virConnectOpenReadOnly() failed No such file or directory
> 

  If you updated libvirt (from 0.2.3 to 0.3.0), make sure you don't
have a libvirt_qemud running, if yes kill it and restart the libvirtd
service, then you should have a libvirtd daemon running instead.
This may or may not be the cause, hard to tell...

Daniel

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