From: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com>
Cc: libvirt-users@redhat.com
Sent: Thu, February 4, 2010 5:45:17 AM
Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] virt-manager can't start
Host - Debian 5.0
- snip -
> Firstly, delete ~/.virt-manager, and let the app create it with
correct
> permissions. Second, make sure libvirtd is installed and running. Finally,
> when virt-manager is running, make sure it is connecting to the qemu:///system
> connection: there should be a row name 'qemu' in the main window, right click
> -> connect. This should ask for the root password.
> If the qemu row isn't there for some reason, you can use File->Open Connection
> to connect.
$ rm -rf .virt-manager
Gnome
Applications -> System Tools -> Virtual Machine Manager
qemu is not there instead "localhost" displayed. Clicking it drops down all VMs
Virtual Machine Manager
File -> No "Open Connect". Only "Add Connection"
$ apt-cache policy libvirt
W: Unable to locate package libvirt
$ apt-cache policy libvirtd
W: Unable to locate package libvirtd
$ apt-cache search libvirtd
No
printout
$ apt-cache search libvirt
collectd - statistics collection and monitoring daemon
libvirt-bin - the programs for the libvirt library
libvirt-dev - development files for the libvirt library
libvirt-doc - documentation for the libvirt library
libvirt0-dbg - library for interfacing with different virtualization systems
libvirt0 - library for interfacing with different virtualization systems
python-libvirt - libvirt Python bindings
libvirt-ocaml-dev - OCaml bindings for libvirt
libvirt-ocaml - OCaml bindings for libvirt
munin-libvirt-plugins - Munin plugins using libvirt
virtinst - Programs to create and clone virtual machines
$ apt-cache policy libvirt0
libvirt0:
Installed: 0.4.6-10
Candidate: 0.4.6-10
Version table:
0.6.5-3~bpo50+1 0
1 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages *** 0.4.6-10 0
500 http://ftp.hk.debian.org lenny/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libvirtd NOT found
B.R.
satimis