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Tarnay Kálmán
Asked: 2015-07-21 06:00:52 +0800 CST

Can libvirtd be used without kvm?

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I wanted to try libvirtd with virt-manager (I wanted to test migration.) on a virtual machine (without nested virtualization support enabled, so no kvm...), and I expected it to work (and use full emulation, qemu), but instead i receive the following error:

Error: No hypervisor options were found for this connection.

The qemu package is installed. Target is Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS.

Is this not a supported scenario?

kvm-virtualization

2 Answers

  1. When connecting to a host libvirtd can use a default path for the connection. if i remember that right :///system will be fine, whereas i.e. :///xapi would expect a specific listener.

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  2. Best Answer

    I have tried again from scratch, and could not reproduce the original issue. This time it it all just worked after installing the libvirt-bin and the qemu packages on the remote machine.

    So, it appears that this is indeed a supported scenario.

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