[libvirt-users] Setting the default Hypervisor

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 02:15:49PM +0100, RaSca wrote:
> Il giorno Gio 08 Mar 2012 13:06:41 CET, Daniel P. Berrange ha scritto:
> [...]
> > Set the following env
> >   export LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI=qemu:///system
> > We support a config home $HOME/.libvirt/libvirt.conf for setting up
> > URI aliases, but we don't currently support setting the defautl URI
> > via the config file. If you file a BZ, we can easily fix that
> > omission
> > Regards,
> > Daniel
> 
> Thank you Daniel, it works. What I don't understand is who originally
> set the URI default value. My Installation step where first installing
> virtualbox and then libvirt with qemu-kvm. It was some apt-get post
> script that read from the system the virtualbox installation and then
> sets the executable?
> 
> The point is: where does this value stored? Is it hardcoded somewhere?

No, libvirt just probes each of its hypervisor drivers in turn, until
it finds out that claims to work


Daniel
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