Public bug reported: I've got a system with VirtualBox and Virtual Machine Manager both installed. I can do a virt-install connected to qemu:///system but not to vbox+unix:///session. When I try the vbox one I get
ERROR internal error: unable to initialize VirtualBox driver API VirtualBox is 5.0.24_Ubuntu r108355 virsh -V shows that it thinks it can talk to VirtualBox: $ virsh -V Virsh command line tool of libvirt 1.3.1 See web site at http://libvirt.org/ Compiled with support for: Hypervisors: QEMU/KVM LXC UML Xen LibXL OpenVZ VMWare VirtualBox ESX Test Networking: Remote Network Bridging Interface netcf Nwfilter VirtualPort Storage: Dir Disk Filesystem SCSI Multipath iSCSI LVM RBD Sheepdog ZFS Miscellaneous: Daemon Nodedev AppArmor Secrets Debug Readline Modular ** Affects: virtinst (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1639391 Title: virt-install can't connect to VirtualBox session To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtinst/+bug/1639391/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs