Comment 9 for bug 198957

hi,

i am trying to run the virt-manager i get the same error message described earlier.
since i do no know how to start the necessary libvirtd, could you post an means to get it working.

many thanks

i am using hardy on an intel laptop - current error message are:

Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon.

Verify that:
 - The 'libvirt-bin' package is installed
 - The 'libvirtd' daemon has been started

details:

Unable to open connection to hypervisor URI 'qemu:///session':
<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> virConnectOpenReadOnly() failed could not use Xen hypervisor entry /tmp/livirt_proxy_conn
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 331, in _open_thread
    self.vmm = libvirt.openReadOnly(self.uri)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 144, in openReadOnly
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenReadOnly() failed')
libvirtError: virConnectOpenReadOnly() failed could not use Xen hypervisor entry /tmp/livirt_proxy_conn