Re: Unit libvirtd.service could not be found. on VM

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 01:00:06PM +0300, Dana Elfassy wrote: > Hi all, > Some background: > I recently has some issues with libvirt on my laptop when I got the error > 'operation failed: pool 'default' already exists with uuid > dd48b6ad-9a00-46eb-a3a4-c122d8a294a5' when I connected virt-manager. I was > finally able to resolve it yesterday, when I removed libvirt and all its > related content in /etc/libvirt, removed the pool by its UUID, deleted > virbr0 & virbro-nic, removed the default network, reinstalled and created > the network & default pool again > > Now I got libvirtd on my laptop up & running. > > However, when I install vms on my laptop, they don't have libvirtd.service > This is the network configuration XML: > <interface type="network"> > <mac address="52:54:00:d0:40:69"/> > <source network="default" portid="171a745c-f96d-412a-baa7-ee1feeaed6ac" > bridge="virbr0"/> > <target dev="vnet1"/> > <model type="virtio"/> > <alias name="net0"/> > <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x03" > function="0x0"/> > </interface> > > I installed the vms with virt-manager. The Network source is Virtual > network 'default': NAT > > I'm using CentOS8.1 on both my laptop & vms. > Is there anything else I need to reconfigure or any thoughts why > libvirtd.service doesn't exist on my VMS? If the unit doesn't exist, then I suspect you are either missing the libvirt-daemon RPM or systemd has not correctly reloaded its unit files after install. (systemctl daemon-reload would fix the latter) Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|