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Description of problem:

Installing libguestfs and using it with the default (in RHEL) libvirt
backend always fails with:

libguestfs: opening libvirt handle: URI = qemu:///session, auth = default+wrapper, flags = 0
libvirt: XML-RPC error : Failed to connect socket to '/run/user/1000/libvirt/libvirt-sock': No such file or directory
libguestfs: error: could not connect to libvirt (URI = qemu:///session): Failed to connect socket to '/run/user/1000/libvirt/libvirt-sock': No such file or directory [code=38 int1=2]
libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x1623e50 (state 0)
libguestfs: command: run: rm
libguestfs: command: run: \ -rf /home/rjones/d/libguestfs-rhel-7.6-lp/tmp/libguestfskeYG1m

How do we fix this?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libvirt-libs-3.9.0-14.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:

Basically always when you use libguestfs / virt tools on RHEL 7.

(In reply to Richard W.M. Jones from comment #0)
> How do we fix this?

By installing libvirt-daemon-kvm maybe? Looks like the daemon which is
supposed to be started automatically for qemu:///session URI is not running.
But we don't know why. You didn't provide anything useful we could look at. It
would be nice if you could attach some logs, ideally with debug messages
turned on.

Closing - this was indeed my end-user mistake of not installing
libvirt-daemon.  Since this is a dependency of libguestfs it is
installed automatically.