F7 + QEmu + virt-manager

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 03/06/07, Andras Simon <szajmi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/3/07, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I thought I'd have a look at playing with QEmu and virt-manager under
> > F7, and so installed them both from the repos.
> >
> > When I fire up virt-manager and select QEmu as the hypervisor I get this:
> >
> > Unable to open connection to hypervisor 'qemu:///system'
> >
> > Not the most informative message ever. Any ideas as to what I should
> > do to fix this.
> >
> > Also, I notice this:
> >
> > # /sbin/service qemu status
> > qemu binary format handlers are not registered.
>
> Some things to check: Does your processor have virtualization
> extensions? Is virtualization enabled in the BIOS?
>
> See http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/FAQ

Yes and yes. I am able to succesfully create and run virtual machines
in qemu directly from the command line (using both qemu-kvm and
qemu-system-x86_64) - the issue is more with getting virt-manager to
work.

J.