[virt-tools-list] Using virt-manager with QEMU in emulation mode

[Programmingkid]

On May 10, 2016, at 7:54 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:

> On 05/10/2016 07:48 PM, Programmingkid wrote:
>> 
>> On May 10, 2016, at 7:41 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> 
>>> On 05/10/2016 07:39 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>>> On 05/10/2016 07:36 PM, Programmingkid wrote:
>>>>> I just finally made virt-manager 1.3.2 run on Mac OS 10.6.8. Is it possible to make virt-manager manage QEMU when it is used in emulation mode? For example, could I use QEMU on x86 hardware to manage qemu-system-ppc?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I should say though, I don't know if anyone has actually tried to get libvirtd
>>> working on a mac. You may be in for a long difficult road ahead of you
>> 
>> I did manage to install libvirt here, I just don't know how it works yet. I just don't think it would help. 
>> 
> 
> First and foremost, virt-manager is a front end for libvirt. There is no using
> virt-manager without libvirt
> 
>> 
>>>> Yes, that should work for some use cases at least, I test Fedora with ppc64 on
>>>> occasion. But it entirely depends on what options you need to specify to qemu,
>>>> and if libvirt/virt-manager have support for them
>> 
>> According to libvirt.com, libvirt is made to work with a hypervisor. So why do we need it for emulation? I think making virt-manager talk to QEMU can be done without libvirt. 
>> 
> 
> libvirt is an API wrapped around qemu (and other hypervisors). In the qemu
> case, it provides a configuration XML format that maps to most qemu command
> line properties, handles tracking qemu process lifecycle state like
> start/stop/save/migrate/taking snapshots, provides APIs around qemu monitor
> commands to enable device hotplug and a ton of other things.
> 
> The point is, if you want to run virt-manager on Mac OSX, and manage qemu
> running on the same machine, libvirtd running on the host machine is 100%
> required.

Trying to make libvirtd run on Mac OS X was very easy to do. This is all it took: libvirt -d

http://linux.die.net/man/8/libvirtd
According to this page, libvirtd can run in non-root mode. Can virt-manager connect to libvirtd using the non-root mode socket ($HOME/.libvirt/libvirt-sock)?

After changing the permissions on /usr/local/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock to be more accessible, I see this error message in virt-manager:

File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 105, in openAuth
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
libvirtError: no connection driver available for qemu:///system