[Query] Facing issue in build libvirt6.0 on ubuntu 1804

[Michal Privoznik]

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On 4/30/20 12:02 PM, Ramesh B wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> Thanks for quick response.
> 
> Ubuntu: 18.04.3 LTS
> QEMU emulator version 4.2.0
> libvirtd (libvirt) 4.0.0
> 
> I have lunched the guest os using QEMU.
> I would like to use the virsh commands to get the status / control of 
> guest OS.
> when i run any virsh commands not getting any response from QEMU.
> When i tried to explore, found the solution saying use of QEMU monitor 
> will help.
> added the below command while lunch,
> -chardev 
> socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-freebsd11.0/monitor.sock,server,nowait 
> -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control
> 
> but result in below mentioed error:
> Failed to bind socket to 
> /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-freebsd11.0/monitor.sock
> 
> Then thought of building libvirt 6.0 version, will help to solve the 
> problem.

Ah, so you wanted to use 'virsh qemu-attach' to attach libvirt to a 
running qemu. Yeah, it needs a monitor. However, the functionality was 
not maintained and probably not functional anyway so we've removed in 
the 5.5.0 release.

> 
> Please guide me to solve this problem.
> 
> Regards,
> Babu B
> 


But what's interesting is that you are unable to build. Which package is 
providing the rst2* binaries? Are their up to date?

Michal