On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 19:45, Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte@googlemail.com> wrote:
2011/5/29 Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com>:
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.
'@//.libvirt/libvirt-sock' should actually look like this '@/home/<username>/.libvirt/libvirt-sock' 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
Only linux supports the abstract socket namespace. I ran into the same issue on OS X (http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-October/msg00969.html) Kind regards, Ruben