Re: [libvirt-users] libvirtd service not starting

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:00:34PM +0000, Jonathan Rurka wrote: >Hello, I'm new to using libvirt. After a few days of installing and >removing libvirt, virt-manager and a few others to get VT-d working >with a virtual machine, I finally got the latest virt-manager and >libvirt installed from source to get the most recent >versions. However, when I start up virt-manager I get a popup saying >"Unable to connect to libvirt; Verify that the 'libvirtd' deamon is >running.". When running "service libvirtd start", I get an error >saying libvirtd.service cannot be found. I can, however, use libvirtd >from the command line. The service file does not exist >in /lib/systemd/system/. > Did you probably forget to specify the prefix to install it into? you can do "which libvirtd" to see that you probably installed it into /usr/local/sbin. Specifying the prefix should help. Getting to your "to get VT-d working", you should check whether everything is enabled in BIOS. That's usually the case if it's not working for you.