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The admin connection defaults to the system-wide 'libvirtd' daemon to manage (libvirtd:///system). As we've now switched to modular daemons this will not work for most users out of the box: $ virt-admin version error: Failed to connect to the admin server error: no valid connection error: Failed to connect socket to '/run/user/1000/libvirt/libvirt-admin-sock': No such file or directory As we don't want to assume which daemon the user wants to manage in the modular topology there's no reasonable default to pick. Give a hint to the users to use the '-c' if the connection to the default URI fails: $ virt-admin version NOTE: Connecting to default daemon. Specify daemon using '-c' (e.g. virtqemud:///system) error: Failed to connect to the admin server error: no valid connection error: Failed to connect socket to '/run/user/1000/libvirt/libvirt-admin-sock': No such file or directory Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
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==============================
Libvirt API for virtualization
==============================
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the
virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It
includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware
vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER
Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management
daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the
API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other
languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as
mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the
website:
https://libvirt.org
License
=======
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General
Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are
not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General
Public License, version 2.0 (or later). See the files ``COPYING.LESSER``
and ``COPYING`` for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
============
Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/compiling.html
Contributing
============
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components
the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development
mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
=======
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
* users@lists.libvirt.org (**for user discussions**)
* devel@lists.libvirt.org (**for development only**)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contact.html