Bug 720017

Summary:	virt-manager failed when opened
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jason Ma <rosegun38>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	berrange, crobinso, hbrock, jforbes, virt-maint
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Description Jason Ma 2011-07-08 17:48:15 UTC

Description of problem:
When I opened the virtual machine manager, it raised a error: Virtual machine manager connection failure. The error message details as below:

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 1055, in _try_open
    None], flags)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 107, 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

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virtual machine manager 0.87

How reproducible:
Opened again

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open the virt-manger.
2.
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Actual results:
Can't use the whole function of the software.

Expected results:

no error.
Additional info:

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2011-07-11 16:20:37 UTC

It says in the error message that you need to start libvirtd. That should fix your problem. If it isn't installed, yum install libvirt.