On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 11:34:12AM +1000, Justin Clift wrote: > On 07/01/2010 11:12 AM, steven765@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > >Trying to build the hellolibvirt example. I get the project to > >compile okay but when I try to run it I get: > > > >Unable to connect to '/usr/local/var/run/libvirt/libivrt-sock > > > >Given libvirt --status says it's in /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock > >that makes sense. How do I make the git version run with my local > >copy? ./hellolibvirt \ qemu+unix:///system?socket=/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock will let you connect to the packaged daemon. > At the moment (still learning things), this works for me: > > $ ./configure --prefix=/ > $ make > > I don't (!) do "make install" afterwards though, as that would > likely install over the top of system provided things. Indeed it will overwrite things. If I'm building from source on a machine that has packaged libvirt installed, I just use a prefix like --prefix=/root/gitlibvirt/install Then you can run a second copy of libvirtd if you decide you want to. Dave
