I just built libvirt 0.9.3 from scratch on my Ubuntu 10.10 system. It appeared to build and install correctly. When running a command like 'virsh -c qemu:///session list --all', I get the following: error: Failed to connect socket to '@/home/heath/.libvirt/libvirt-sock': Connection refused error: failed to connect to the hypervisor When looking into it, I realized libvirtd was not running as user heath after the command. Running it with LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1, I get: ... 22:26:34.334: 8385: debug : remoteOpen:774 : Auto-spawn user daemon instance 22:26:34.334: 8385: debug : doRemoteOpen:487 : proceeding with name = qemu:///session 22:26:34.334: 8385: debug : doRemoteOpen:497 : Connecting with transport 1 22:26:34.378: 8385: debug : doRemoteOpen:544 : Proceeding with sockname @/home/heath/.libvirt/libvirt-sock 22:26:34.378: 8385: debug : virCommandRunAsync:1874 : About to run LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games HOME=/home/heath USER=heath LOGNAME=heath /usr/local/sbin/libvirtd --timeout=30 22:26:34.378: 8385: debug : virCommandRunAsync:1890 : Command result 0, with PID 8386 22:26:34.379: 8385: debug : virCommandRun:1711 : Result status 0, stdout: '(null)' stderr: '(null)' 22:26:55.430: 8385: debug : do_open:1059 : driver 7 remote returned ERROR 22:26:55.430: 8385: debug : virUnrefConnect:145 : unref connection 0x8451840 1 22:26:55.430: 8385: debug : virReleaseConnect:94 : release connection 0x8451840 error: Failed to connect socket to '@/home/heath/.libvirt/libvirt-sock': Connection refused error: failed to connect to the hypervisor I then tried to start libvirtd manually with 'LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games HOME=/home/heath USER=heath LOGNAME=heath /usr/local/sbin/libvirtd --timeout=30', just like it appears virsh is trying to do. I get a return code of 1 with the following output: 22:29:33.295: 8389: info : libvirt version: 0.9.3 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virInitialize:412 : register drivers 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterDriver:767 : driver=0x3745e0 name=Test 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterDriver:791 : registering Test as driver 0 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterNetworkDriver:584 : registering Test as network driver 0 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterInterfaceDriver:617 : registering Test as interface driver 0 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterStorageDriver:650 : registering Test as storage driver 0 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterDeviceMonitor:683 : registering Test as device driver 0 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterSecretDriver:716 : registering Test as secret driver 0 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterNWFilterDriver:749 : registering Test as network filter driver 0 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterDriver:767 : driver=0x374fa0 name=Xen 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterDriver:791 : registering Xen as driver 1 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterDriver:767 : driver=0x375720 name=OPENVZ 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterDriver:791 : registering OPENVZ as driver 2 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterDriver:767 : driver=0x375920 name=VMWARE 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterDriver:791 : registering VMWARE as driver 3 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterDriver:767 : driver=0x375420 name=PHYP 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterDriver:791 : registering PHYP as driver 4 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterStorageDriver:650 : registering PHYP as storage driver 1 22:29:33.295: 8389: debug : virRegisterInterfaceDriver:617 : registering PHYP as interface driver 1 22:29:33.324: 8389: debug : tryLoadOne:163 : Found VBoxXPCOMC.so in '/usr/lib/virtualbox' 22:29:33.324: 8389: debug : vboxRegister:94 : VBoxCGlueInit found API version: 4.0.10 (4000010) 22:29:33.324: 8389: debug : vboxRegister:121 : VirtualBox API version: 4.0 22:29:33.324: 8389: debug : virRegisterDriver:767 : driver=0x376920 name=VBOX 22:29:33.324: 8389: debug : virRegisterDriver:791 : registering VBOX as driver 5 22:29:33.324: 8389: debug : virRegisterNetworkDriver:584 : registering VBOX as network driver 1 22:29:33.325: 8389: debug : virRegisterStorageDriver:650 : registering VBOX as storage driver 2 22:29:33.325: 8389: debug : virRegisterDriver:767 : driver=0x376c20 name=ESX 22:29:33.325: 8389: debug : virRegisterDriver:791 : registering ESX as driver 6 22:29:33.325: 8389: debug : virRegisterInterfaceDriver:617 : registering ESX as interface driver 2 22:29:33.325: 8389: debug : virRegisterNetworkDriver:584 : registering ESX as network driver 2 22:29:33.325: 8389: debug : virRegisterStorageDriver:650 : registering ESX as storage driver 3 22:29:33.325: 8389: debug : virRegisterDeviceMonitor:683 : registering ESX as device driver 1 22:29:33.325: 8389: debug : virRegisterSecretDriver:716 : registering ESX as secret driver 1 22:29:33.325: 8389: debug : virRegisterNWFilterDriver:749 : registering ESX as network filter driver 1 22:29:33.325: 8389: debug : virRegisterDriver:767 : driver=0x374a00 name=remote 22:29:33.325: 8389: debug : virRegisterDriver:791 : registering remote as driver 7 22:29:33.325: 8389: debug : virRegisterNetworkDriver:584 : registering remote as network driver 3 22:29:33.325: 8389: debug : virRegisterInterfaceDriver:617 : registering remote as interface driver 3 22:29:33.325: 8389: debug : virRegisterStorageDriver:650 : registering remote as storage driver 4 22:29:33.325: 8389: debug : virRegisterDeviceMonitor:683 : registering remote as device driver 2 22:29:33.325: 8389: debug : virRegisterSecretDriver:716 : registering remote as secret driver 2 22:29:33.325: 8389: debug : virRegisterNWFilterDriver:749 : registering remote as network filter driver 2 Any ideas why libvirtd isn't starting? -- ---------- If you want to send stuff to the bit bucket, email Phineas.Ferb@Kandre.com .