On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, poma wrote: > On 12.09.2014 12:07, 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 > > > > $ systemctl is-enabled libvirtd.service > enabled > > $ systemctl is-active libvirtd.service > active > > $ rpm -qf /usr/lib64/libvirt/connection-driver/libvirt_driver_qemu.so > libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-1.2.8-1.fc21.x86_64 oddly, all of the above was true (except that i have the fc22 version of that last package), but i just stopped libvirtd.service, started it again, and all is well. *sigh*. no idea why that fixed things. onward ... 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