Bug 999323

Summary: virsh ignores --connect switch
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 7.1CC: acathrow, ajia, dyuan, hliu, mkletzan, tzheng
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Fixed In Version: libvirt-1.1.1-3.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Gerd Hoffmann 2013-08-21 07:30:39 UTC 
Description of problem:
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Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-client-1.1.1-2.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. virsh -c lxc:/// list --all

Actual results:
virsh connects to qemu:///system

Expected results:
virsh connects to lxc:///

Additional info:

nilsson kraxel ~# echo $VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI
qemu:///system
Comment 2 Martin Kletzander 2013-08-21 08:44:04 UTC 
Broken by commit abfff210 (mine), vshInit needs to be split to two functions.
Comment 3 Martin Kletzander 2013-08-21 09:57:45 UTC 
Patch proposed upstream:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-August/msg01023.html
Comment 4 Martin Kletzander 2013-08-22 07:57:24 UTC 
Fixed upstream with commit v1.1.1-197-ga0b6a36:

commit a0b6a36f9456dae895f50d344fd2d38be1167c58
Author: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan>
Date:   Wed Aug 21 11:02:42 2013 +0200

    Fix URI connect precedence
Comment 6 Hao Liu 2013-09-02 06:37:09 UTC 
Verified this fix.

Packages:
libvirt-client-1.1.1-3.el7.x86_64

Verify steps:
1. Set environment variable to qemu.
# export VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI=qemu:///system

2. Check connected URI.
# virsh -c lxc:/// uri

Result:
lxc:///
Comment 7 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 09:46:56 UTC 
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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