[CentOS-virt] unable to get domain status from libvirt & KVM

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Tom Georgoulias
<tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com> wrote:
>
> As test user "testu":
>
> [testu at kvm ~]$ virsh -c qemu:///system list --all
> error: unable to connect to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': Permission
> denied
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
> [testu at kvm ~]$ virsh -c qemu:///session list --all
> 15:04:05.167: error : No vport operation path found for host0
> 15:04:05.186: error : No vport operation path found for host4
> 15:04:05.192: error : No vport operation path found for host3
> 15:04:05.240: error : No vport operation path found for host1
> 15:04:05.240: error : No vport operation path found for host2
>  Id Name                 State
> ----------------------------------
>
> [testu at kvm ~]$
>
> Doesn't seem like a socket access issue, the perms for the
> libvirt-sock-ro are wide open.

It says "unable to connect to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock'", not to
'libvirt-sock-ro'.  Try manually changing it to look like:

srwxrwx--- 1 root testu     0 Mar 11 15:03 libvirt-sock

[This is how mine is configured]

Akemi