Re: Unit libvirtd.service could not be found. on VM

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 02:25:29PM +0300, Dana Elfassy wrote: > Thanks, Daniel > I verified I had libvirt-daemon rpm on my laptop and reloaded its units, > but that didn't solve the issue. I then checked the vms- > libvirt-daemon rpm was indeed missing on my vms. After I installed it & > reloaded its unit files libvirtd.service was found, but as I started it, > the error 'operation failed: pool 'default' already exists with uuid > a42beb54-839e-437b-a48e-d06f6100205c' appeared again on my laptop. > I'm not sure if I was supposed to install libvirt-daemon rpm on the vms? if > it was needed - how do I resolve the error now? and any idea why it was > missing? I never had to install it before > if not - if you have any other thoughts/suggestions I'll be glad to hear :) If virt-manager is connecting to the host OS, there's no reason to install libvirtd in any guests VM. The error message is telling you that the 'default' storage pool already exists - "virsh pool-list" should show it. THe existance of this error message in the logs is not in itself a problem. It may just show that virt-manager is blindly trying to create the pool even when it already exists. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|