Re: [libvirt] virsh --connect not working

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt;wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 08:37:54AM -0700, hiren panchasara wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com > >wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:15:56PM -0700, hiren panchasara wrote: > > > > I've installed libvirt-0.9.13 from ports on my freebsd machine. > > > > > > > > I started libvirtd: > > > > > > > > $ ps awwux | grep libvirtd > > > > root 11470 0.0 0.4 103100 31948 - I 10:41PM 0:00.35 > > > > libvirtd -v -d > > > > > > > > $ sudo virsh --connect qemu:///system > > > > error: no connection driver available for No connection for URI > > > > qemu:///system > > > > error: failed to connect to the hypervisor > > > > > > > > I am sure I am missing something obvious. > > > > > > > > > Try collecting some debugging output using > > > > > > LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 sudo virsh --connect qemu:///system > > > > > > It should give a better idea why it failed. > > > > > > > Not getting any useful info: > > > > $ ps awwux | grep libvirtd > > root 3396 0.0 0.4 103100 32248 - I 8:24AM 0:01.05 > > libvirtd -v -d > > > > $ LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 sudo virsh --connect qemu:///system > > error: no connection driver available for No connection for URI > > qemu:///system > > error: failed to connect to the hypervisor > > > > Tried 1-4 debug levels with the same response. > > Sounds like sudo is stripping the env variable. Try running it as root > directly, without sudo. > Aah, right, o/p is huge so putting it in pastebin: http://pastebin.com/YVrK0fRb