On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, drago01 wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Robert P. J. Day > <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > i suspect this has an easy answer but playing with virtualization > > for the first time in a while, installed what i think are all the > > necessary packages, and just want to test virt-manager, so i run > > > > $ virt-manager > > > > am prompted for password, then: > > > > "Unable to connect to libvirt. > > no connection driver available for qemu:///system" > > > > and the VMM window displays: > > > > "localhost (QEMU) - Not Connected" > > > > is this a permission problem? have i not started the appropriate > > system unit? > > > > i've already done a group install of "virtualization", i can see the > > appropriate modules are loaded on this intel quad core i7: > > > > $ lsmod | grep kvm > > kvm_intel 152115 0 > > kvm 492841 1 kvm_intel > > $ > > > > what embarrassingly obvious step have i overlooked? thanks. > > systemctl start libvirtd.service that's already running. and i asked on this list as i'm doing this on a fedora rawhide system, but i will happily move it to the fedora virt list if that's more appropriate. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test