| Summary: | RFE: start libvirtd if connection to localhost/QEMU fails and it is not running | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | David Jaša <djasa> |
| Component: | virt-manager | Assignee: | Cole Robinson <crobinso> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | CC: | bsarathy, dyuan, mzhan |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-06-10 22:24:16 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
Problem is that most of the time virt-manager is not running with sufficient privileges to start libvirtd, since it is usually run as a regular user and not root. We could attempt, but I think it would cause more confusion than it's worth. Closing as NOTABUG |
Description of problem: SSIA Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-manager-0.8.6-4.el6.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. stop libvirtd if it is running 2. start virt-manager 3. double click "localhost (QEMU) - Not Connected" line Actual results: virt-manager throws error popup saying that connection could not be established and asking user to check if it is running Expected results: virt-manager starts libvirtd and connects to it Additional info: Traceback in error popup: unable to connect to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock', libvirtd may need to be started: No such file or directory Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1022, in _try_open None], flags) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 102, 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: No such file or directory