Hello
I think now is running.
I've started doing

chubut@chubut:/usr/local/sbin$ sudo ./libvirtd &

and checked doing

chubut@chubut:~$ ps -ef | grep libvirtd
chubut    1877  1700  0 12:16 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto libvirtd
chubut@chubut:~$ ps -ef | grep libvirtd
root      1945  1721  0 12:17 pts/1    00:00:00 ./libvirtd
chubut    1993  1700  0 12:17 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto libvirtd
chubut@chubut:~$ sudo virsh -c qemu:///system list
 Id Name                 State
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chubut@chubut:~$

Do you think it's right? Thank you very much.

Marcela

2011/1/20 Justin Clift <jclift@redhat.com>
On 20/01/2011, at 9:52 PM, Marcela Castro León wrote:
Hello
> I've got this error.
> chubut@chubut:/usr/local$ virsh -c qemu:///system list
> error: unable to connect to '/usr/local/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock', libvirtd may need to be started: No such file or directory
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
>
> The daemon is not running, but i don't know how to start it.

Ok, this might be a dumb question, but have you tried "sudo virsh -c qemu:///system list" (with the "sudo") when the libvirtd program is running?