On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 01:33:51PM -0400, Peter P. wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm getting started with hacking around with libvirt and am trying to > familiarize myself with launching and running an instance of libvirtd > I built from source on Centos 7.6. > > Following the instructions from https://libvirt.org/compiling.html to > launch my built versions of libvirtd and virsh, I get the following > error with no other context when trying to start a domain using "virsh > start mydomain": > > error: Cannot recv data: Connection reset by peer > > Despite this error, I am able to run commands list virsh list. > > Are there additional parameters needed to launch libvirtd or > additional services I need to start up alongside it? If you have libvirt installed from the distro packages, then a plain "virsh" will find the virsh binary from /usr/bin. This is built to expect an installation config --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var If you build your own using "configure" with no args, or with args that don't match the above, then your libvirtd binary will be listening on a different socket, so virsh won't connect successfully. You should use the "virsh" binary that you just built instead. 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 :|