[libvirt] Running libvirtd out of source directory connection reset error

[Peter P.]

Peter,

Thank you for detailed suggestions! Setting SELinux to permissive did
the trick and I will proceed down that path until I'm ready to replace
the system libvirt RPMs with my own as you suggested.

-Peter

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 3:07 AM Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 11:24:28 -0400, Peter P. wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm getting started with hacking around with libvirt  and am trying to
> > familiarize myself with launching and running an instance of libvirtd
> > I built from source on Centos 7.6.
>
> Launching libvirt manually on distros with Selinux will not work
> properly because the process will not have the correct label.
>
> The most forward way to launch a custom libvirtd with proper label is to
> build RPMs (make rpm) and install those.
>
> For testing purposes it's also an option to switch selinux to
> permissive but that will e.g. not allow you to test selinux related
> changes. Also this is not a good idea to run in anything but development
> environment.
>
> > Following the instructions from https://libvirt.org/compiling.html to
> > launch my built versions of libvirtd and virsh, I get the following
> > error with no other context when trying to start a domain using "virsh
> > start mydomain":
> >
> > error: Cannot recv data: Connection reset by peer
>
> If you want to try developing libvirtd you should start by enabling
> debug logging. That might also add some context here.
>
> > Despite this error, I am able to run commands list virsh list.
>
> You probably won't be able to start VMs.
>
> > Are there additional parameters needed to launch libvirtd or
> > additional services I need to start up alongside it?
>
> You need at least virtlogd.