[libvirt] Building on Solaris 11 Express

[Ruben Kerkhof]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 18:07, Richard Laager <rlaager at wiktel.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 09:11 +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
>> > It has probably something to do with this piece of code, in daemon/libvirtd.c:
>
> I finally got back to looking at this, and that's what I discovered as
> well. (I hadn't checked my email in the interim.)
>
> I stopped it from dropping privileges and now libvirtd starts. Earlier,
> when launching virsh (with no arguments), I think I got some errors
> about localhost:8000.
>
> I ignored that, as I'm really looking to test VirtualBox, which brings
> me to this...
>
> If I don't have the VirtualBox GUI running, virsh fails to connect:
>
> /usr/local/bin/virsh -c vbox:///session
> ... hangs for 10 or so seconds ...
> error: internal error nsIEventQueue object is null
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor

Same issue here, on OpenIndiana.

> I expected libvirt to handle starting VirtualBox processes as necessary.

It does.

> How is this designed to work?

Without the GUI running:

ruben at osx ~]$ virsh -c vbox:///session start OpenIndiana
Domain OpenIndiana started

I expect it's a Solaris issue.

Cheers,

Ruben