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

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 01:33:51PM -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.
> 
> 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
> 
> Despite this error, I am able to run commands list virsh list.
> 
> Are there additional parameters needed to launch libvirtd or
> additional services I need to start up alongside it?

If you have libvirt installed from the distro packages, then a plain
"virsh" will find the virsh binary from /usr/bin. This is built to
expect an installation config

   --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var


If you build your own using "configure" with no args, or with args
that don't match the above, then  your libvirtd binary will be
listening on a different socket, so virsh won't connect successfully.
You should use the "virsh" binary that you just built instead.

Regards,
Daniel
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