Re: VM won't start from virt-manager -- Unable to open system.token

On 2 Jan 2024 10:45 -0600, from john(a)jlhimpel.net (John W. Himpel): Maybe not. That directory has the same permissions on my Debian system, and I can use virt-manager just fine as an unprivileged user. I'm on virt-manager 4.1.0 and libvirt 9.0.0. (Current Debian 12/Bookworm.) Sorry, no, not really. Hopefully someone else will be able to chime in. I see you're connecting to the system qemu instance. Does it make any difference if you connect to the user instance? That should be $ virt-manager -c qemu:///session --debug You obviously won't see any of the VMs in the system instance doing that, but it just _might_ provide a clue as to where to look next if that does work. Try creating a new VM that way if you don't have anything handy, and check the output for anything that looks like a corresponding socket location when you start it. Also, have you tried using some other front-end, such as AQEMU, virt-install or virsh (as the same unprivileged user) to do the same thing? Just trying to think of things that might narrow down the possibilities for what might be the actual culprit in your setup. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”