According to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1357363, most of virt-admin's environment variables are not taken into effect when set. As it turned out, virsh suffers from the very same problem which resides in the generic vsh.c module. Erik Skultety (2): vsh: Make vshInitDebug return int instead of void tools: Make use of the correct environment variables tools/virsh.c | 1 + tools/virt-admin.c | 1 + tools/vsh.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++--------------- tools/vsh.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) -- 2.5.5 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list