[libvirt-users] Failed to launch libvirt 1.2.7

[Michal Privoznik]

On 23.10.2016 11:48, 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

LD_PRELOAD="/usr/local/usr/lib64/" ./myApp

or whatever the directory that contains your libvirt.so is. If you are
tired of this impractical way of spawning applications, use what others
suggested.

Michal