> What's the output of "# virsh -V" on your second ubuntu box? I guess > your libvirt on that box might not be compiled with qemu driver. # virsh -V Virsh command line tool of libvirt 0.9.3 ... Compiled with support for: Hypervisors: QEmu/KVM UML OpenVZ VirtualBox LXC ESX Test Networking: Remote Daemon Network Bridging Nwfilter VirtualPort Storage: Dir Filesystem SCSI Multipath LVM Miscellaneous: SELinux Secrets Debug Readline > Another possiablity is the libvirt is compiled with both qemu driver and > vbox driver, but when you try to creat a new connection, vbox was the > first succesfully connected one. In this case, you can try like below: Why? Ah, I do have a couple stray vbox processes somehow: root 25265 0.0 0.1 86076 4304 ? S 19:34 0:00 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD root 25274 0.0 0.1 209964 6672 ? Sl 19:34 0:02 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC --pipe 4 --auto-shutdown But that should cause it to deny it knows how to handle Qemu/KVM? > # virsh -c qemu:///sytem list --all Okay, that one works. > Or you can set the ENV variable VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI or > LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI to the URI of the hypervisor you want to connect to. The first (at least) also works. Thanks. Whit