Re: [libvirt] Building on Solaris 11 Express

2011/5/29 Richard Laager <rlaager(a)wiktel.com&gt;: > On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 12:34 +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote: >> > So I tried building libvirt on Solaris 11 Express. The following >> > outlines the trouble (and successes) I've had so far. >> >> I assume your building from up-to-date git here? > > I was using 0.9.1. I should switch to git. > >> &#39;(a)//.libvirt/libvirt-sock&#39; should actually look like this >> &#39;(a)/home/&lt;username&gt;/.libvirt/libvirt-sock&#39; as you're running libvirtd >> as non-root it tries to open a UNIX socket in the home directory of >> the user starting it. This path is build via this pattern: >> >>   @<home-directory>/.libvirt/libvirt-sock > > I was actually running it as root. > > Richard > That's even stranger. libvirtd uses geteuid() == 0 to detect if it's running as root and acts upon that. It only tries to open a UNIX socket in the user's home (what it does in your case) when it detects non-root execution. Something is wrong here, but I've no clue what. Matthias