[TriLUG] KVM problem

[Derek Linz]

This may be an obvious question, but is libvirtd still running?
Restarting it won't kill running VMs if it's version 0.6.0 or later.

-Derek Linz

Composed on a touch screen, please don't judge me.

On Nov 19, 2010, at 7:55 AM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I have a problem with a KVM machine and was hoping I could draw on the immense depth of knowledge in this group.
>
> This machine has been running multiple virtual machines for several months, but recently any virsh command responds with "unable to connect with hypervisor."
>
> The actual response is:
> Connecting to uri: qemu:///system
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
>
>
> Is there any solution to this short of shutting down all of the virtual machines and restarting all of the relevent processes, or even, perish the thought, rebooting the machine?
>
> Is there any way that I can leave the virtual machines running and just restart the control processes?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
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