[arch-general] libvirt and VirtualBox

[Jukka Salmi]

Damjan Georgievski --> arch-general (2016-03-03 14:43:03 +0100):
> since the update of libvirt to 1.3.2, it seems the sd_notify support
> is broken, and the daemon is killed.
> 
> is the daemon even running for you?

Hmm, this seems to be another issue, because the issue I was talking
about (`virsh -c vbox:///session' failing) already existed with libvirt
1.3.1-2 (and before IIRC).

But yes, I probably also see the issue you mention -- at least libvirt
1.3.2-1 behaves oddly here: at first I wasn't able to start a VM
(qemu:///system), and then (with no qemu:///session VM running),
virt-manager complained about

	Error polling connection 'qemu:///session':
	internal error: client socket is closed

	Traceback (most recent call last):
	  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 385, in _handle_tick_queue
	    conn.tick_from_engine(**kwargs)
	  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1319, in tick_from_engine
	    raise e  # pylint: disable=raising-bad-type
	libvirtError: internal error: client socket is closed

However, libvirtd is still running (assuming this is "the daemon" you were
talking about).


Cheers, Jukka

> On 3 March 2016 at 14:37, Jukka Salmi <j+arch at salmi.ch> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > On an up-to-date Arch x86-64 system, I fail to manage VirtualBox VMs
> > with libvirt virsh:
> >
> > $ virsh -c vbox:///session
> > error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
> > error: internal error: unable to initialize VirtualBox driver API
> >
> > Is this supposed to work out of the box?
> >
> > Both VirtualBox (5.0.14-1) and libvirt (1.3.2-1) are installed from the
> > community repository, and VirtualBox support seems to be compiled in:
> >
> > $ virsh -V
> > Virsh command line tool of libvirt 1.3.2
> > [...]
> > Compiled with support for:
> >  Hypervisors: QEMU/KVM LXC UML OpenVZ VMware PHYP VirtualBox ESX Test
> > [...]
> >
> > Furthermore, both VirtualBox alone (i.e. when managed by VBoxManage or
> > similar) and libvirt when used to manage QEMU/KVM sessions work fine.
> >
> > Any hints about what I'm missing?
> >
> >
> > TIA & cheers,
> >
> > Jukka
> >
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> 
> 
> -- 
> damjan

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