Unable to open connection to hypervisor 'qemu:///system'

Justin Conover justin.conover at gmail.com
Sat Jul 14 10:31:38 UTC 2007


virt-manager +kvm wont load up since the last rounds of F7 updates I think.

Unable to open connection to hypervisor URI 'qemu:///system':
<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> virConnectOpenReadOnly() failed No such file
or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 68, in
_connect_to_uri
    conn = self.get_connection(uri, readOnly)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 309, in
get_connection
    conn = vmmConnection(self.get_config(), uri, readOnly)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 74, in
__init__
    self.vmm = libvirt.openReadOnly(openURI)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 132, in
openReadOnly
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenReadOnly() failed')
libvirtError: virConnectOpenReadOnly() failed No such file or directory


[root at echelon ~]# lsmod |grep kvm
kvm_amd                25813  1
kvm                    75969  1 kvm_amd


This works:

[root at echelon kvm]# /usr/bin/qemu-kvm fedora7_1
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