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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Virt-manager
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:24:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1310063090.53951.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110707191516.096ebbc0@jdm.myzen.co.uk>



On Thursday, July 7 at 19:15 (+0100), john said:

> 
> I am trying to start virt-manager but when I start the daemon
> 
> /etc/init.d/libvirtd i get
> 
>  * Starting libvirtd ...
> /usr/sbin/libvirtd: error: Unable to initialize network sockets.
> Check /var/log/messages or run without --daemon for more info.
>  * start-stop-daemon: failed to start
> `/usr/sbin/libvirtd'                [ !! ]
>  * ERROR: libvirtd failed to start
> 
> Any suggestions???

Other than the obvious (which is to check /var/log/messages or run
without --daemon)...

My guess is that you have enabled the virt-network USE flag but the
system is not configured as such that it could start the default virtual
network.  Among other things you need:

      * iptables support in there kernel
      * bridging support in the kernel
      * tun/tap support in the kernel
      * brctl (probably a dependency of the package itself)
      * iproute2 (probably a dependency of the package itself)

Did /var/log/messages tell you anything (did you bother to look)?  Also
libvirt has a log level that can be set in the config, you could
increase that (and also check the logs).

You should also check the logs.

-a





  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-07 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-07 18:15 [gentoo-user] Virt-manager john
2011-07-07 18:24 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2011-07-07 19:46   ` john
2011-07-07 21:26     ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-07 22:30       ` john
2011-07-08  1:17         ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-08 20:22           ` john
2011-07-08 21:37             ` john
2011-07-08 22:19               ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-08 21:57             ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-08 23:12               ` john

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