Unit libvirtd.service could not be found. on VM

Dana Elfassy delfassy at redhat.com
Wed May 13 20:03:03 UTC 2020


Was able to solve this one as well
Thanks for the kind and fast answers :)

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 3:32 PM Dana Elfassy <delfassy at redhat.com> wrote:

> Thanks,
> I discovered I had wrong permissions for /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/, after
> setting them to drwxr-x--x. qemu qemu and executing daemon-reload
> libvirtd.service exists now on my vms :)
> However - I'm not able to get it to run. In the journal I see the message
> libvirtd[6800]: Unable to import CA certificate list
> /etc/pki/vdsm/certs/cacert.pem
> I have verified its permissions and that it's not empty.
> I also executed update-ca-trust, but still not able to start the service,
> any suggestions on this one?
> Dana
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 2:07 PM Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 5/13/20 12:59 PM, Dana Elfassy wrote:
>> > Thanks, Michal,
>> > On my laptop I do have libguestfs and libvirt-daemon-qemu. both
>> > libvirtd.service and libvirtd.socket are running ok on my laptop
>> > I just realized I haven't mentioned - my vms intend to serve as hosts
>> > themselves, and that's why they, too, need to have libvirtd.service
>> > running on them.
>> > up to recently I didn't have such a problem when I installed a vm on my
>> > laptop - libvirtd.service was found on it. I don't know exactly what
>> > caused this to change. Maybe it has something to do with
>> configurations/
>> > permissions of libvirt/ kvm?
>> > Earlier, I'm not sure how, I managed to have libvirtd.service on a vm I
>> > created. it wasn't running, but at least it was there. I'm not sure
>> what
>> > I have changed, but now I'm getting the message that the service could
>> > not be found again
>>
>>
>> That sounds like a kickstart/distro problem. Libvirt itself does not
>> guarantee it is installed by default on a distribution. Either you need
>> to specify the correct group to install, or install packages yourself
>> after the installation is done. Configuring what SW is installed inside
>> guest is out of libvirt's scope, sorry.
>>
>> Michal
>>
>>
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