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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. 3. Actual results: Can't use the whole function of the software. Expected results: no error. Additional info:
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.