Hi all, I had installed RHEL 5 x86_64 with virtualization right off the bat. Everything ran beautifully with two Xen guests (also RHEL 5.) All 3 IPs (host and 2 guests) were in the same subnet. Then I had to change all the IP addresses to a different subnet (but again all 3 within the same subnet - trying to stay away from 802.1q stuff)... so I modified each guest's /etc/hosts, etc/sysconfig/network, etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and then shutdown both guests. Then modified the configs on the host and rebooted. When it boots now it seems like it's fine but there is no network connectivity and the default route is pointing to the virbr0 interface!! ifconfig shows eth0 but without an IP address If I do a 'service network restart' then everything works fine again, eth0 has the correct IP and the default route is in place. At that point everything seems fine with the exception of: I get this every two minutes now: libvir: Remote error : unable to connect to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': Connection refused libvir: warning : Failed to find the network: Is the daemon running ? libvir: Remote error : unable to connect to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': Connection refused libvir: Remote error : unable to connect to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': Connection refused libvir: warning : Failed to find a node driver: Is the libvirtd daemon running ? libvir: Remote error : unable to connect to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': Connection refused libvir: warning : Failed to find the network: Is the daemon running ? libvir: Remote error : unable to connect to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': Connection refused libvir: Remote error : unable to connect to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': Connection refused libvir: warning : Failed to find a node driver: Is the libvirtd daemon running ?

'service libvirtd status' shows: libvirtd dead but subsys locked

I do notice that when I launch virt-manager there is nothing listed in the 'virtual network' tab - it's all greyed out.

another error I noticed is: virsh net-list --all error: Failed to list active networks error: this function is not supported by the hypervisor: virConnectNumOfNetworks

Where am I to fix this weirdness? Changing IPs shouldn't involve all of this! Especially when I'm only changing eth0 and they are all in the same subnet as before and nothing else was modified.

Thanks for the info... I attempted a service libvirtd stop (which fails since it isn't running) a service libvirtd start says OK but the status remains the same: libvirtd dead but subsys locked so I did a service libvirtd stop and then ran it manually and got the following: 15:03:59.798: error : No vport operation path found for host1 15:03:59.801: error : No vport operation path found for host2 15:03:59.802: error : No vport operation path found for host3 15:03:59.803: error : No vport operation path found for host4 15:03:59.872: error : No vport operation path found for host6 15:03:59.880: error : No vport operation path found for host5 15:03:59.892: error : No vport operation path found for host0 I have no idea what these errors mean.... does each host entry mentioned above correspond to a xen guest?

weirdness..... Thanks again Denny Snyder Systems Engineer IT@Johns Hopkins 5801 Smith Ave Suite 3110C Baltimore, MD 21209 (410) 735-7613: DESK (410) 735-4660: FAX On 10/21/2009 02:55 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > Tis means the libvirtd isn't running > > >> 'service libvirtd status' shows: >> libvirtd dead but subsys locked >> >> > And this obviously confirms it. > Yeah its very odd that this is related. > > At least if you do 'service libvirtd stop' to clear the dead PID file, > and then 'service libvirtd start' it should hopefully be back to normal. > If it still crashes, then best to try running /usr/sbin/libvirtd > manually, or under gdb/valgrind and capture a trace > > > Once libvirtd is running you can disable virbr0 with > > virsh net-destroy default > virsh net-autostart --disable default > > which will stop 'virbr0' running / being created - its only required if > you want to use NAT, not for bridging > > Regards, > Daniel > -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list