[virt-tools-list] connection driver for QEMU

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Fri May 13 17:14:21 UTC 2016


On 05/12/2016 11:15 AM, Programmingkid wrote:
> I'm having problems with virt-manager connecting to QEMU. I installed libvirt 1.3.4 with no argument added to configure. When I try to make a connection with the QEMU/KVM option, I see this error message: File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 105, in openAuth
>     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
> libvirtError: no connection driver available for qemu:///system. 
> 
> libvirtd is running using the -d option. What is this driver that I need where can I find it? The source code to this driver would be very helpful.

That's the 'qemu' driver of libvirt. Check the libvirt report that libvirt
./configure prints, it will tell you what bits are enabled or not

- Cole




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