Yes, you were right. It was in fact a name resolution problem. Now it works fine. Thanks!! > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 22 November 2006 13:33 > To: Fischer, Anna > Cc: Jimison, Ed; fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: error when trying to connect with > virt-manager > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:27:01PM -0000, Fischer, Anna wrote: > > The log says: > > > > Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:17:44 ERROR Unable to open connection to > > hypervisor URI 'xen': socket.gaierror (-2, 'Name or service not > > known') > > Hmm, sounds like you have a messed up /etc/hosts file - check > that the line for '127.0.0.1' has a name 'localhost' > associated with it, eg > > $ cat /etc/hosts > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # > that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > ::1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > > > > > "virsh list" runs perfect on my system. Furthermore, a > strange thing > > is that while this error message window is shown when virt-manager > > starts up, I can see in the background (virt-manager GUI is > actually > > loaded while showing the error message) that virt-manager > shows Dom0 > > and its CPU usage etc. correctly. So why do I get this > error message > > then and virt-manager shuts down? > > Its it failing to lookup 'localhost' when opening the console > for the guest I think. > > Dan. > -- > |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 > 978 392 2496 -=| > |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ > -=| > |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ > -=| > |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF > F742 7D3B 9505 -=| > -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
