Re: [libvirt-users] "failed to connect to the hypervisor"

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:59:03AM -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: >On 2015-10-20 05:33, Martin Kletzander wrote: >>On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 03:57:39PM -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: >>>Hi, all. Ubuntu host, attempting to get virsh working with >>>VirtualBox... and failing. Here's what happens: >>> >>>root@foobox:~# virsh -c vbox:///session list >>>error: failed to connect to the hypervisor >>>error: internal error: unable to initialize VirtualBox driver API >>> >> >>What version of VirtualBox do you have installed? The logging in that >>driver is not particularly loud, so this won't tell you much more than >>the fact that the initialization just failed. It's most probably >>something missing in your system or you have to new version installed. > >You're on the money: I do have the latest and greatest (5.0.6) from >Oracle installed. Despite some of its nifty features, I'm not wedded >to it, if downgrading will fix my underlying issue. Is that the >recommended course of action? Or is there something else I could do? > Well, of course the best thing would be adding support for it into libvirt =) If it is backwards compatible with the latest version that has support in libvirt, then it shouldn't be a problem, I think, but I have very limited experience with the vbox driver in libvirt. Feel free to have a look at the code and let me know, I'm sure we'll come up with something. In the meantime I'll compile the 5.0.8 version (so I don't have to agree with the PUEL license) and see what I can do.