[libvirt] virsh --connect not working

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 08:37:54AM -0700, hiren panchasara wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:15:56PM -0700, hiren panchasara wrote:
> > > I've installed libvirt-0.9.13 from ports on my freebsd machine.
> > >
> > > I started libvirtd:
> > >
> > > $ ps awwux | grep libvirtd
> > > root       11470   0.0  0.4  103100  31948  -  I    10:41PM   0:00.35
> > > libvirtd -v -d
> > >
> > > $ sudo virsh --connect qemu:///system
> > > error: no connection driver available for No connection for URI
> > > qemu:///system
> > > error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
> > >
> > > I am sure I am missing something obvious.
> >
> >
> > Try collecting some debugging output using
> >
> >   LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 sudo virsh --connect qemu:///system
> >
> > It should give a better idea why it failed.
> >
> 
> Not getting any useful info:
> 
> $ ps awwux | grep libvirtd
> root       3396   0.0  0.4  103100  32248  -  I     8:24AM  0:01.05
> libvirtd -v -d
> 
> $ LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 sudo virsh --connect qemu:///system
> error: no connection driver available for No connection for URI
> qemu:///system
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
> 
> Tried 1-4 debug levels with the same response.

Sounds like sudo is stripping the env variable. Try running it as root
directly, without sudo.

Daniel
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