Re: [libvirt-users] How to change the default connection of 'virsh' tool from 'qemu' to 'xen' ?

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 09:32:30AM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Wed, 2018-10-31 at 10:56 +0900, Minjun Hong wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Thanks to help of this mailing list (especially Jim Fehlig), I have finished setup of libvirt. > > However, there is something weird. It is that I installed libvirt on 5 servers but > > the default connection of one of them is 'qemu:///' even if those of the others are all 'xen:///'. > > You probably installed the QEMU driver on that one server only: if > that's indeed the case, the easiest way to fix the inconsistency > would be to uninstall it. > > If that fails... > > > I searched how to change it but, I only found a bypass adding " LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI='xen:///' " in my .bashrc file. > > Currently, value of the variable (LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI) is set to 'qemu:///'. > > Since the bypass makes the virtualization type of the server visible 'qemu' to the open stack, I have to change libvirt configuration. > > > > I also checked some configure files under '/etc/libvirt', such as libvirt.conf, libvirtd.conf and libxl.conf. > > But I have no idea, how and what to change. > > Please give me some advise. It will be a big help for me. > > ... you can simply set > > uri_default = "xen:///" > > in /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf to change the system-wide default URI > without having to mess with environment variables. > Or in .config/libvirt/libvirt.conf for a non-root user.