Hi all, As a general thought, would anyone be interested in getting this weird '@' thing in the bind address on OSX "fixed"? It shows up in both libvirtd and virsh: $ libvirtd 2012-02-08 08:39:53.211+0000: -1: info : libvirt version: 0.9.10 2012-02-08 08:39:53.211+0000: -1: error : virNetSocketNewListenUNIX:346 : Failed to bind socket to '(a)/Users/jc/.libvirt/libvirt-sock': No such file or directory and $ virsh Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal. Type: 'help' for help with commands 'quit' to quit virsh # version error: Failed to reconnect to the hypervisor error: no valid connection error: Failed to connect socket to '(a)/Users/jc/.libvirt/libvirt-sock': No such file or directory Matthias mentioned it's due to using anonymous unix sockets, which are only present on Linux: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2011-November/msg00018.html Guess that means libvirtd doesn't work on *BSD either? Perhaps gnulib has a cross platform way to take care of this? (Note, I could have sworn eblake started looking into this ages ago, but then I moved on to the Aeolus team. Unsure if there was useful progress back then. ?) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- Aeolus Community Manager http://www.aeolusproject.org