Description of problem:

libguestfs could not connect to libvirt and inject root password 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
OSP13

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Creating instance 
2.
3.

We were able to bypass this by telling libguestfs not to use libvirt

Actual results:


Expected results:

Should be able to spawn an instance which nova generates the password

Additional info:

Workaround:

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/virt/disk/vfs/guestfs.py

def inspect_capabilities(self): (around #87)
    g.set_backend('direct')
    g.launch()

def setup(self, mount=True)): (around #227)
    self.handle.set_backend('direct')
    self.handle.launch()

This is not a good solution but customer is happy at least we have a way to define the root password.

I really think this is the problem with running Libvirt as root on qemu:///system.