[Libvir] Error - when compiling sample libvirt program - Failed to find libvirt proxy

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Mon Feb 25 10:04:24 UTC 2008


On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:55:29PM +0530, Sunil Lingappa wrote:
> While i am able to compile it with success, when i run it i get the
> following error :
> 
> *" failed to find libvirt_proxy " *
> 
> But the output is still displayed.

That old version of libvirt is trying to find libvirt_proxy (an old
daemon which allowed limited access to Xen for ordinary users).  You
can either just ignore the error, or run your program as root, or
upgrade to a newer libvirt.

Rich.

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