could not start libvirt service

[Peter Krempa]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 15:56:57 +0530, shafnamol N wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using *CentOS 8*. I have built *libvirt* with the following method:
> 
> $ meson build -Dsystem=true
> $ ninja -C build
> $ ninja -C build install
> 
> But the problem is when i started it
> 
> # systemctl start libvirtd
> Job for libvirtd.service failed because the control process exited
> with error code.
> See "systemctl status libvirtd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
> 
> i tried to get the status of libvirt
> 
> # systemctl status libvirtd
> 
> libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled;
> vendor preset: enabled)
>    Active: failed (Result: exit-code)
> 
> What will be the problem?

Well, what does the log say?

https://www.libvirt.org/kbase/debuglogs.html