[libvirt-users] Failed to launch libvirt 1.2.7

[Sławek Kapłoński]

Hello,

Did You try to run autogen.sh with "--system" flag before doing "make"?
As it is described in http://libvirt.org/compiling.html - maybe that
would help You.

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Best regards / Pozdrawiam
Sławek Kapłoński
slawek at kaplonski.pl

On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, Marina Danial wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am currently working on Redhat 6 - Kernel 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64. It has
> by default libvirt 0.10.2.
> 
> I wanted version 1.2.7. So I downloaded this and libvirt-1.2.7.tar.gz and I
> followed the following steps:
> 
> 1. ./configure (with its default settings)
> 2. make
> 3. make install
> 
> 
> Currently, the installation is in: /usr/local
> 
> and the source tree is in /export/home/libvirt.
> 
> 
> I stopped the previously installed daemon so that the new one takes effect.
> 
> I launched the daemon from /export/home/libvirt/daemon/libvirtd -d.
> 
> However every time I launch the C++ code, this message appears:
> 
> libvir: XML-RPC error : Failed to connect socket to
> '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': No such file or directory
> Failed to open connection to qemu:///system
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> 1. How can I launch the daemon from the source tree? It does not behave as
> it should when it is launched from /etc/init.d
> 2. How can any application e.g. virt-manager look at the new paths of the
> newly installed libvirt?
> 3. How can I get libvirt to work from the source tree as if it was
> originally installed in Redhat?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Marina

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