Bug 556132

Summary: virt-manager fails to connect to libvirt
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic>
Component: virt-managerAssignee: Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: berrange, bnocera, crobinso, hbrock, jforbes, lkundrak, virt-maint
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Description Valent Turkovic 2010-01-16 17:39:02 UTC 
Description of problem:
I installed virt-manager and started it, and got an error saying:

Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon.
Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system
Verify that:
 - The 'libvirtd' daemon has been started


I checked and saw that libvirt wasn't even installed, how come?

I installed it manually and started the service, then virt-manager started ok.

This is obviously not what users expect, I guess that libvirt should be installed as a dependency and started.

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Comment 1 Valent Turkovic 2010-01-16 17:46:22 UTC 
Created attachment 384829 [details]
Virtual Machine Manager Connection Failure
Comment 2 Lubomir Rintel 2010-01-18 13:16:57 UTC 
Not a bug. You don't have to run libvirtd locally, you could connect to a remote server.
Comment 3 Daniel Berrangé 2010-01-18 13:24:28 UTC 
FYI: if you had done  'yum groupinstall Virtualization' you would have got everything you need in one go. As Lubomir mentions, simply installing 'yum install virt-manager' doesn't bring in everything since it needs to be usable in a client scenario without any local virt technology install
Comment 4 Valent Turkovic 2010-01-18 19:39:09 UTC 
Thank you both for clarification, seams reasonable once you got it, but you can also understand how it seamed strange from my point of view. 

Thanks again.
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2010-01-20 13:40:47 UTC 
Maybe a clarification in the description would be useful?