Jim Meyering wrote: > I've written a test to exercise libvirtd a little. > Unfortunately, if I'm already running libvirtd, that test fails > and I can't do anything about it: > > $ ./libvirtd & ./libvirtd > Failed to bind socket to '(a)/j/.libvirt/libvirt-sock': Address already in use > [Exit 2] > > Any objection to providing an option to libvirtd that specifies > that directory (also used to form server->logDir)? > > It feels like it should come from the config file, but I haven't > looked at details yet. Yes it should be possible to set these, but isn't at the moment. Check out qemud/qemud.c function qemudInitPaths. Another possibility is to have libvirtd running as root, and libvirtd running as you, in which case they _shouldn't_ clash ...