Re: [libvirt] unix_sock_dir for virtlogd

Hi, thanks for your reply Martin, 2018-05-04 1:44 GMT+03:00 Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com&gt;: > On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 11:03:48PM +0300, Mathieu Tarral wrote: >> >> Hi ! >> >> I'm trying to run libvirtd from git, and the daemon is starting now, >> but when i try to start a VM (using virt-manager) it complains that >> virtlogd socket is unreachable. >> >> The problem is that it tries to reach it at the following location: >> >> virNetSocketNewConnectUNIX:713 : Failed to connect socket to >> '/home/tarrma/usr/var/run/libvirt/virtlogd-sock': Connection refused >> >> however, i specified in my $HOME/usr/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf >> > How did you came up with this path? >> unix_sock_dir = "/var/run/libvirt" >> >> Then why virt-manager is not using the socket from >> /var/run/libvirt/virtlogd.sock ?? >> >> Any ideas, where i misconfigured my installation ? >> > > What did you specify as a prefix when building from git? Did you do > `./autogen.sh --system`? Or used some custom prefix? I followed the instructions here: https://libvirt.org/compiling.html And as I didn't wanted to replace my Debian binaries, i opted for the $HOME/usr prefix: ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/usr make make install Now i edited $HOME/usr/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf to set unix_sock_dir = "/var/run/libvirt"

And running sudo ./usr/sbin/libvirtd creates the socket at the desired location. And so does sudo ./usr/sbin/virtlogd. But somehow, if i connect to qemu:///system with virt-manager, and attempt to start a VM, it complains that it cannot find virtlogd socket: