Current libvirt git really spews errors to the console at startup when run unprivileged $ ./daemon/libvirtd 2014-06-23 16:55:27.806+0000: 5207: info : libvirt version: 1.2.6 2014-06-23 16:55:27.806+0000: 5207: error : virPCIDeviceConfigOpen:300 : Failed to open config space file '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:00.0/config': Permission denied 2014-06-23 16:55:27.807+0000: 5207: error : virPCIDeviceConfigOpen:300 : Failed to open config space file '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:02.0/config': Permission denied 2014-06-23 16:55:27.808+0000: 5207: error : virPCIDeviceConfigOpen:300 : Failed to open config space file '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:14.0/config': Permission denied 2014-06-23 16:55:27.810+0000: 5207: error : virPCIDeviceConfigOpen:300 : Failed to open config space file '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:16.0/config': Permission denied 2014-06-23 16:55:27.810+0000: 5207: error : virPCIDeviceConfigOpen:300 : Failed to open config space file '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:19.0/config': Permission denied 2014-06-23 16:55:27.811+0000: 5207: error : virPCIDeviceConfigOpen:300 : Failed to open config space file '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1a.0/config': Permission denied 2014-06-23 16:55:27.815+0000: 5207: error : virPCIDeviceConfigOpen:300 : Failed to open config space file '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1b.0/config': Permission denied 2014-06-23 16:55:27.817+0000: 5207: error : virPCIDeviceConfigOpen:300 : Failed to open config space file '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1c.0/config': Permission denied 2014-06-23 16:55:27.824+0000: 5207: error : virPCIDeviceConfigOpen:300 : Failed to open config space file '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:02:00.0/config': Permission denied 2014-06-23 16:55:27.825+0000: 5207: error : virPCIDeviceConfigOpen:300 : Failed to open config space file '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1c.1/config': Permission denied 2014-06-23 16:55:27.826+0000: 5207: error : virPCIDeviceConfigOpen:300 : Failed to open config space file '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:03:00.0/config': Permission denied 2014-06-23 16:55:27.827+0000: 5207: error : virFileReadAll:1297 : Failed to read file '/sys/class/net/wlp3s0/speed': Invalid argument 2014-06-23 16:55:27.828+0000: 5207: error : virPCIDeviceConfigOpen:300 : Failed to open config space file '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1c.2/config': Permission denied 2014-06-23 16:55:27.828+0000: 5207: error : virPCIDeviceConfigOpen:300 : Failed to open config space file '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1d.0/config': Permission denied 2014-06-23 16:55:27.829+0000: 5207: error : virPCIDeviceConfigOpen:300 : Failed to open config space file '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1f.0/config': Permission denied 2014-06-23 16:55:27.829+0000: 5207: error : virPCIDeviceConfigOpen:300 : Failed to open config space file '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1f.2/config': Permission denied 2014-06-23 16:55:27.834+0000: 5207: error : virPCIDeviceConfigOpen:300 : Failed to open config space file '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1f.3/config': Permission denied Whatever is doing this needs to skip itfrom unprivileged daemons. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|