On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 01:27:47PM +0530, PREETHI RAMESH wrote:

Sorry for my ignorance, but how do you do that?

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>wrote:

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On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:41:51AM +0530, PREETHI RAMESH wrote:

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I'm using libvirt's Java API bindingsa and i've opened a connection : [...] BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 23 minutes 38 seconds)

I've used qemu:///system but why is my operation being denied?

On a read-only connection any operation which may modify the state of the system will get denied. You need a read-write connection for destroying a domain.

You do that by not asking for a read-only connection ! /** * Constructs a Connect object from the supplied URI. * * @param uri * The connection URI * @param readOnly * Whether the connection is read-only * @throws LibvirtException * @see <a href="http://libvirt.org/uri.html">The URI * documentation</a> */ public Connect(String uri, boolean readOnly) throws LibvirtException since your code does conn = new Connect("qemu:///system", true); you asked for it. Please read the docs/code ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/