[Libguestfs] How to make virt-builder use qemu:///system instead of qemu:///session

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:37:31AM +0530, Niranjan wrote:
> libvirt: XML-RPC error : Cannot recv data: Connection reset by peer
> virt-builder: error: libguestfs error: could not connect to libvirt (URI =
> qemu:///session): Cannot recv data: Connection reset by peer [code=38
> domain=7]

This is a libvirt bug.  Possibly:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164773

or:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=886454

Easiest thing is to ditch libvirt and have virt-builder run qemu
directly:

  export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct

Rich.

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