On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 06:47:43AM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
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.
[A small addendum to what Martin says.] Jon, you can use `virt-host-validate` to check the above, if everything is setup correctly, it should look like that: $ sudo virt-host-validate QEMU: Checking for hardware virtualization : PASS QEMU: Checking for device /dev/kvm : PASS QEMU: Checking for device /dev/vhost-net : PASS QEMU: Checking for device /dev/net/tun : PASS LXC: Checking for Linux >= 2.6.26 : PASS [. . .] -- /kashyap