2011/5/29 Richard Laager <rlaa...@wiktel.com>: > On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 12:34 +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote: >> > So I tried building libvirt on Solaris 11 Express. The following >> > outlines the trouble (and successes) I've had so far. >> >> I assume your building from up-to-date git here? > > I was using 0.9.1. I should switch to git. > >> '@//.libvirt/libvirt-sock' should actually look like this >> '@/home/<username>/.libvirt/libvirt-sock' as you're running libvirtd >> as non-root it tries to open a UNIX socket in the home directory of >> the user starting it. This path is build via this pattern: >> >> @<home-directory>/.libvirt/libvirt-sock > > I was actually running it as root. > > Richard >
That's even stranger. libvirtd uses geteuid() == 0 to detect if it's running as root and acts upon that. It only tries to open a UNIX socket in the user's home (what it does in your case) when it detects non-root execution. Something is wrong here, but I've no clue what. Matthias -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
