[Swan-dev] testing: how to initialize the virtual network

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> Now on to the next problem.  When I try to "run" east from the GUI
> VMM, it says:
>
>    Error starting domain: internal error: process exited while connecting
>    to monitor: qemu-system-x86_64: -chardev
>    socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/east.monitor,server,nowait:
>    Failed to bind socket: Permission denied
>    chardev: opening backend "socket" failed
>
> I don't know what to make of that.

chmod 777 /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/

It is due to our VMs running as user, not as qemu. Our user needs to be
able to write in that directory.

this will hit you every time your libvirt package gets updated too.

Paul