As noted in another thread, I've not had success with homebrew/Mac OSX's libvirt install. On Ubuntu and CentOS virtual machines, installing "libvirt-daemon" and friends, I end up with various "-sock" files in /var/run/libvirt. This seems sensible. After installing on MacOS X with homebrew ls /usr/local/var/run/libvirt hostdevmgr lockd qemu storage so perhaps it isn't surprising that virsh -c vbox:/// fails. Am I right in believing that the lack of -sock files means that the "brew services start libvirt" is either misconfigured or otherwise failing?