Unable to connect to libvirt qemu:///system.

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Trying to get a viritual machine running:

Unable to connect to libvirt qemu:///system.
*Verify that the ‘libvirtd’ daemon is running.

Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py”, line 924, in _do_open
self._backend.open(cb, data)
File “/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/connection.py”, line 153, in open
conn = libvirt.openAuth(self._open_uri,
File “/usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/libvirt.py”, line 148, in openAuth
raise libvirtError(‘virConnectOpenAuth() failed’)
libvirt.libvirtError: Failed to connect socket to ‘/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock’: Bestand of map bestaat niet
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I have libvirt-daemon - Server side daemon and supporting files for libvirt installed.

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Hi
But is libvirtd started?


systemctl status libvirtd

I suspect not… by default it’s disabled, I start it when needed, if you want it starting at boot, then you need to enable the libvirtd service.

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○ libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon 
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) 
     Active: inactive (dead) 
TriggeredBy: ○ libvirtd-admin.socket 
             ○ libvirtd.socket 
             ○ libvirtd-ro.socket 
       Docs: man:libvirtd(8) 
             https://libvirt.org

Looks iike your right ? Active: inactive (dead)

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systemctl start libvirtd

fixes it :slight_smile: