On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:37:47AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Guillaume Rousse wrote: > >Daniel P. Berrange a écrit : > >>The daemon libvirtd will always listen for UNIX socket connections. You > >>have to explicitly turn on TCP support, after having setup certificates. > >>If using SSH, then we simply tunnel to the UNIX socket over SSH so all > >>you need do is start the libvirtd daemon on the remote host. > >Can you rephrase the documentation a little bit then ? It seems to imply > >you have to do some additional libvirtd configuration for ssh transport > >usage. > > Suggested change to the documentation attached. > > >>>Also, from where does those error and warning come ? > >>>[root@acacia ~]# LC_ALL=C virsh -c xen:/// list > >>>libvir: Remote error : No such file or directory > >>>libvir: warning : Failed to find the network: Is the daemon running ? > >>That is a sign that the libvirtd daemon is notrunning on the host in > >>questions. > > Well sometimes, but also it can be a sign that virsh is trying to use > the wrong Unix socket, or that the Unix socket has the wrong permissions > or is otherwise inaccessible. Try: Actually on my F8 test machine I saw this yesterday, but I rebooted the machine to another OS in the meantime. > /usr/sbin/libvirtd --help > > (which should print out all the paths expected by libvirtd) and: > > strace virsh -c xen:/// list > > which should tell you what socket virsh is trying to connect on. > > In any case this warning can be ignored unless you want to manipulate > networks. Still if this occurs on a default installation, it would be great to avoid it, sorry I didn't took the time to chase it yesterday :-\ Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list