On 11/27/2011 05:03 AM, Frédéric Grelot wrote: > Hi all, > > Since I upgraded my box to Fedora 16, I couldn't just start my virtual > machines with "virsh start name_of_vm", since the vm was not found (while > libvirtd runs fine). I use virt-manager, in which I had setup the connection > correctly (qemu:///system). > By investigating a bit further, I found this in the man page of virsh : > ------------------- > connect URI [--readonly] > (Re)-Connect to the hypervisor. When the shell is first started, > this is automatically run with the URI parameter > requested by the "-c" option on the command line. The URI > parameter specifies how to connect to the hypervisor. The > documentation page at <http://libvirt.org/uri.html> list the > values supported, but the most common are: > > xen:/// > this is used to connect to the local Xen hypervisor, this is > the default > > qemu:///system > connect locally as root to the daemon supervising QEmu and KVM > domains > > qemu:///session > connect locally as a normal user to his own set of QEmu and > KVM domains > > lxc:/// > connect to a local linux container > > For remote access see the documentation page on how to make URIs. > The --readonly option allows for read-only > connection > ------------------- > Is this expected that xen:/// has become the default??? I don't really use > it, and I think virsh default has always been qemu:///system (at least for > the root user). > If so, is there an easy way to change this : I don't want to type "virsh -c > qemu:///system start MY_VM" everytime I want to start one VM, or "virsh -c > qemu:///system list" when I just want to see which vm is online... > > Thanks for your help and your information regarding this new (?) default > setup. >
The man page is inaccurate, virsh's default is roughly based on whatever hypervisor it detects. Please file a libvirt bug to update the docs: http://libvirt.org/bugs.html Thanks, Cole _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
