Similar to what virsh and virt-login-shell do https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1350315 --- I can't actually reproduce the bug, the backtrace is similar to 97973ebb7 which added the same fix for virt-login-shell, and that commit also mentions the randomness of reproducing... tools/virt-admin.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/virt-admin.c b/tools/virt-admin.c index 4acac65..7bff5c3 100644 --- a/tools/virt-admin.c +++ b/tools/virt-admin.c @@ -1371,6 +1371,11 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) return EXIT_FAILURE; } + if (virInitialize() < 0) { + vshError(ctl, "%s", _("Failed to initialize libvirt")); + return EXIT_FAILURE; + } + virFileActivateDirOverride(argv[0]); if (!vshInit(ctl, cmdGroups, NULL)) -- 2.7.4 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list