[libvirt] No VirtualBox Driver

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Mon Dec 17 07:42:43 UTC 2012


On 12/17/12 07:40, Arslan Waqar wrote:
> Hi all,

Hi Arslan,
>
>
> I am new to the group and hence there might be a chance I might be
> asking a simple question...
>
> The thing is I compiled and installed libvirt from git. Then in my
> terminal window I started virsh. It started. Then since I had Virtual
> Box installed on my machine I ran "connect vbox:///session". Once I did
> this I got two errors which said:
> error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor
> error: internal error unable to initialize VirtualBox driver API

What version of VirtualBox are you using? The support for Vbox 4.2 
wasn't committed yet to the tree as it lacks feedback from the users. If 
you have VirtualBox 4.2 and are willing to test the patches for that it 
would be really helpful.


>
> I am unable to resolve this issue...Any input is welcome!
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Regards,
> Arslan Waqar.
>

Peter

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