Thanks for getting back to me. The permissions on that directory look ok to me, see below (cadc is the group specified in my libvirtd.conf). Which leads me to think it could be something else. labrosse@proc5-09$ ls -la /var/run/libvirt total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 15 03:25 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Apr 15 04:02 .. srwxrwx--- 1 root cadc 0 Apr 15 03:25 libvirt-sock srwxrwxrwx 1 root cadc 0 Apr 15 03:25 libvirt-sock-ro labrosse@proc5-09$ ls -l /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock srwxrwx--- 1 root cadc 0 Apr 15 03:25 /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock It seems as if its xen causing the issue (although i cannot see any issues in the logs). I get a 'Xen Daemon error' when connecting as my user. I have verified the xen daemon is running and I can sudo virsh list without seeing any errors. Are you aware of any other configuration that needs to be done elsewhere? thanks Daniel On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 10:08 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: