[Libvir] error : could not connect to xen:///; error: failed to connect to the hypervisor

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 01:02:00PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:00:27PM +0100, Felix Krohn wrote:
> > I can't find the reason for the following error:
> >
> > # virsh
> > libvir: error : could not connect to xen:///
> > error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
> [...]
> > Output from `strace -s 1024 -f virsh list --all` is here:
> > http://krohnjob.de/files/virsh.strace
> > Can't see the reason for the above mentioned error in there...
> 
> Really strange.  Is xen configured as a backend
> (ie. ./configure --without-xen or something like that?)
> 
> You can also run with debugging enabled, if you configured that:
> 
>   LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 virsh
> 
> which will print a lot more useful info.  (We should really enable
> debugging support in configure by default ...)

We do enable it by default now since 0.4.1 

Dan.
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