Re: libvirt

[Catonano]

2018-05-30 21:52 GMT+02:00 Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden>:

Hi Catonano,

> 2018-05-30 16:06 GMT+02:00 Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden>:
>
>>
>> Catonano <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > in attempting to install Ubuntu Xenial in a vm with Virtual machine
>> Manager
>> > and I get this
>> >
>> > Impossibile completare l'installazione: 'Failed to connect socket to
>> > '/var/run/libvirt/virtlogd-sock': No such file or directory'
>>
>> Looks like you need to start virtlogd first.
>>
>
> I have this among the services in my configuration
>
> (service libvirt-service-type)
>
> I see now that probably also
>
> (service virtlog-service-type)
>
> should be present
>
> Should it ?

There does not seem to be a service type for this.  Maybe it should be
added.

>> Is this part of the installation of libvirt?
>>
>
> I'm not sure I understand thhe question
> I assumed that the libvirt service in my configuration was enough

That’s what I assumed too.  I used libvirt before on Fedora but had not
noticed virtlogd.

--
Ricardo

There's a virtlog service in gnu/services/virtualizzation.scm

The manual mentions it too

I'm reconfiguring right now, I'll let you know