Virtual Machine Manager comlains about libvirtd

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It complains that it can’t connect to localhost because probably libvirtd is not running. Well it is running, so please share your wisdom with me.
Here is error message:


Unable to open connection to hypervisor URI 'qemu:///system':
unable to connect to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock', libvirtd may need to be started: Permission denied
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 971, in _try_open
    None], flags)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 111, in openAuth
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
libvirtError: unable to connect to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock', libvirtd may need to be started: Permission denied

I see there “permission” mentioned, do i have to rum Virtual Machine Manager as root? and how do i do that?

2

ok… i fired up VMM from yast (as root obviously) and connection was established. But when i tried t make new machine i got following error:

A hypervisor is not running.  For kvm, load the kvm kernel modules.  If you want to run xen, reboot and load the xen kernel

Details 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 661, in show_create
    create = vmmCreate(virtman=True,key=0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vminstall/gtk/interface.py", line 117, in __init__
    raise HypervisorError(HypervisorError.E_NO_HYPERVISOR)
HypervisorError: A hypervisor is not running.  For kvm, load the kvm kernel modules.  If you want to run xen, reboot and load the xen kernel.
3

Well, I have different problems with VirtualBox but love it :slight_smile: Anyways, for some reason I have to run it as root, otherwise it doesn’t start. Try to launch it from console: :/> su

#VirtualBox

And make sure you spelled it right – it is case sensitive :slight_smile:
cheers

4

Hi, if you are on Xen make sure you are running the xen kernel. You can see this by typing:

uname -a

In the terminal and it should show xen in there. Also make sure that xend is started. If you are on kvm make sure that the kvm module is loaded:

For intel:

modprobe kvm_intel

For amd:

modprobe kvm_amd

Thanks

5

Are you part of the vboxusers group? I had to join this group with:

usermod -G vboxusers your_username_here

To be able to use VirtualBox as normal user

6

As the error message says, the problem is that libvirtd daemon is not started. To start it, Open YAST | System | System Services (runlevel) and mark libvirtd as enable services.http://vavai.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/kvm-runlevel.jpeg

This solved the problem on my pc.

Taken from KVM Virtualization on openSUSE 11.3 | Spirit of Change

Day after a day I feel opensuse is less user friendly and not suitable for novices. May be Novel removed these complexities in SLED and keep them in the OpenSuse so that users think too much to buy their SLED? Please discuss this with me since I began to think seriously to return to Kubuntu. I loved the stability and maturity of OpenSuse but I’m not ready to spend this much time and efforts solving problems like this. Ubuntu/Kubuntu guys supersede Novel in this area.