KVM 101 : Error: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock'
When installing KVM-QEMU using the below command in debian systems, we might get an error when trying to use the virsh command:
When using the below commands for example:
Or:
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': Permission denied
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': No such file or directory
error: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': No such file or directory
When trying to start our libvirtd daemon, we discover that it was not installed:
We can install libvirtd using the below command:
libvirtd talks to the hypervisor. It is the intermediary between the virsh client and hypervisor
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