Peter, Thank you for detailed suggestions! Setting SELinux to permissive did the trick and I will proceed down that path until I'm ready to replace the system libvirt RPMs with my own as you suggested. -Peter On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 3:07 AM Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 11:24:28 -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. > > Launching libvirt manually on distros with Selinux will not work > properly because the process will not have the correct label. > > The most forward way to launch a custom libvirtd with proper label is to > build RPMs (make rpm) and install those. > > For testing purposes it's also an option to switch selinux to > permissive but that will e.g. not allow you to test selinux related > changes. Also this is not a good idea to run in anything but development > environment. > > > 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 > > If you want to try developing libvirtd you should start by enabling > debug logging. That might also add some context here. > > > Despite this error, I am able to run commands list virsh list. > > You probably won't be able to start VMs. > > > Are there additional parameters needed to launch libvirtd or > > additional services I need to start up alongside it? > > You need at least virtlogd. -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
