[libvirt-users] Error connecting to hypervisor

[Sukrit Bhatnagar]

Hi,

I have compiled and installed libvirt from git checkout
and started libvirtd service. The version is 5.3.0 and
I have done system-wide installation.

When I do a `virsh list`, I get the following error:
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: Unable to encode message header

Similarly, the libvirtd instance shows the following error:
2019-04-23 21:36:57.777+0000: 1807: info : libvirt version: 5.3.0
2019-04-23 21:36:57.777+0000: 1807: info : hostname: dell
2019-04-23 21:36:57.777+0000: 1807: error : virNetSocketReadWire:1803
: End of file while reading data: Input/output error

Furthermore, virnetmessagetest show the following error:
$ VIR_TEST_DEBUG=1 ./virnetmessagetest
TEST: virnetmessagetest
 1) Message Header Encode
... libvirt: XML-RPC error : Unable to encode message header
FAILED
 2) Message Header Decode
... libvirt: XML-RPC error : Unable to decode message length
FAILED
 3) Message Payload Encode
... libvirt: XML-RPC error : Unable to encode message header
FAILED
 4) Message Payload Decode
... libvirt: XML-RPC error : Unable to decode message length
FAILED
 5) Message Payload Stream Encode
... libvirt: XML-RPC error : Unable to encode message header
FAILED

I am also compiling qemu from source and
the virsh commands ran fine when I was using
libvirt 4.7.0 from Fedora repository.

Any ideas how I can solve this issue?

Thanks,
Sukrit