Hi,
I am trying to set up virt-manager on my system in order to set up some
virtual machines. I added the libvirtd service to my system by adding
the following service to my system configuration:
```
(service libvirt-service-type)
```
and I've added myself to the libvirt group.
I can see the service running when I do:
```
robby@lambda ~$ sudo herd status libvirtd
Status of libvirtd:
It is running since 10:34:29 PM (5 minutes ago).
Running value is 256.
It is enabled.
Provides (libvirtd).
Requires ().
Will be respawned.
```
I can see the libvirt-sock file that I should be able to use:
```
robby@lambda ~$ groups
users libvirt netdev audio video dialout wheel
robby@lambda ~$ ll /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock
srwxrwx--- 1 root libvirt 0 May 28 22:34 /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock
```
But I cannot use virt-manager or virsh as my user. I see the following
behavior using virsh:
```
robby@lambda ~$ virsh -c qemu:///system
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: internal error: Unable to get system bus connection: Could not connect:
No such file or directory
robby@lambda ~$ sudo virsh -c qemu:///system
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.
Type: 'help' for help with commands
'quit' to quit
virsh #
```
So I can use virsh while running as root - but I should also be able to
use it when running as my user...
When I try to connect using virt-manager, I see the following similar error:
```
Unable to connect to libvirt qemu:///system.
internal error: Unable to get system bus connection: Could not connect: No such
file or directory
Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"/gnu/store/sa4wwfmvlrry69gyilhb961gpbbamayf-virt-manager-4.1.0/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py",
line 923, in _do_open
self._backend.open(cb, data)
File
"/gnu/store/sa4wwfmvlrry69gyilhb961gpbbamayf-virt-manager-4.1.0/share/virt-manager/virtinst/connection.py",
line 171, in open
conn = libvirt.openAuth(self._open_uri,
File
"/gnu/store/nb6yaafwa44jqfg9s5fbr5nbsa46panm-python-libvirt-8.6.0/lib/python3.10/site-packages/libvirt.py",
line 147, in openAuth
raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: Unable to get system bus
connection: Could not connect: No such file or directory
```
Since this seems to be an issue relating to dbus, here are the following
services I have running related to that:
At a system level:
```
(service dbus-root-service-type)
(service elogind-service-type)
```
As my user:
```
(service home-dbus-service-type)
```
Maybe there is some conflict between running dbus as my user and as
root?
Any advice for getting virt-manager working would be greatly
appreciated!
Thanks,
Robby
