On 10/12/2011 11:57 AM, Hong Xiang wrote:
[hxiang@T420 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.1 (Santiago) [hxiang@T420 ~]$ cat /etc/openclient-release Open Client RHEL 64 3.10 (Gold Master) [hxiang@T420 ~]$ libvirtd --version libvirtd (libvirt) 0.8.7 [hxiang@T420 ~]$ virsh -V Virsh command line tool of libvirt 0.8.7 See web site athttp://libvirt.org/
Compiled with support for: Hypervisors: QEmu/KVM LXC ESX Test Networking: Remote Daemon Network Bridging Netcf Nwfilter VirtualPort Storage: Dir Disk Filesystem SCSI Multipath iSCSI LVM Miscellaneous: SELinux Secrets Debug DTrace Readline [hxiang@T420 ~]$ ls -l /etc/precious.* -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2 Oct 12 11:38 /etc/precious.1 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2 Oct 12 11:38 /etc/precious.2 [hxiang@T420 ~]$ virsh -c qemu+unix:///system?socket=/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.
Type: 'help' for help with commands 'quit' to quit
virsh # start fc15 ^_ _ _ it seems you're using privileged user to login virsh, I remembered that it should be "virsh >" not "virsh #" when use unprivileged user, I assume you hadn't any modification in libvirtd.conf, in addition, for unprivileged user, as usual, libvirt will raise the following information if you're trying to connect hypervisor:
Tested it on libvirt-0.8.2-22.el5: $ virsh -c qemu+unix:///system?socket=/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock --readonly error: unable to connect to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock', libvirtd may need to be started: Permission denied error: failed to connect to the hypervisor Tested it on libvirt-0.9.4-16.el6.x86_64: $ virsh -c qemu+unix:///system?socket=/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock --readonly error: authentication failed: authentication failed error: failed to connect to the hypervisor Regards, Alex
Domain fc15 started
virsh # dump fc15 /etc/precious.1 Domain fc15 dumped to /etc/precious.1
virsh # save fc15 /etc/precious.2 Domain fc15 saved to /etc/precious.2
virsh # [hxiang@T420 ~]$ ls -l /etc/precious.* -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 253777159 Oct 12 11:42 /etc/precious.1 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 257745683 Oct 12 11:42 /etc/precious.2 [hxiang@T420 ~]$