I can do TLS certificate authentication on a remote libvirt access through 'virsh' ( virsh -c qemu+tls://hostnake/system) . But when I try same auth from my C code linked with libvirt 0.6.1 I get the message : " libvir: Remote error: cannot access CA certificate '/usr/local/etc/pki/CA/cacert.pem . No such file or directory" My certificate is at /etc/pki/CA as instructed in the web site (deafult) and so is my libvirtd.conf saying. virsh works ok with it . In my case the server and client are on same machine . I guess the need for SYSCONF_DIR = /usr/local/etc comes from the configure of the libvirt . In fact I see in the configure file the statement : sysconfigdir = '${prefix}/etc . Any idea how to fix that . I am using the installed libvirt . did not rebuild it . thanks Zvi Dubitzky Virtualization and System Architecture Email:dubi@il.ibm.com IBM Haifa Research Laboratory Phone: +972-4-8296182 Haifa, 31905, ISRAEL