http://imil.net/blog/tags/libvirt/ Recent content in Libvirt on iMil.net Hugo en-us Mon, 11 Aug 2014 13:08:40 +0000 http://imil.net/blog/posts/2014/virt-manager-nc-unix-connect-failed/ Mon, 11 Aug 2014 13:08:40 +0000 http://imil.net/blog/posts/2014/virt-manager-nc-unix-connect-failed/ <p>I came across an annoying behaviour while trying to connect to a remote <em>KVM</em> hypervisor from a <em>FreeBSD GUI</em>. <code>virt-manager</code> failed to connect to the server and showed the following error message:</p> <!-- raw HTML omitted --> <!-- raw HTML omitted --> <p>In short, <code>virt-manager</code> tries to access to <code>/usr/local/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock</code> because it is compiled with a <code>/usr/local</code> <code>PREFIX</code> on <em>FreeBSD</em>. Of course they didn&rsquo;t plan anything on a plain text configuration file. I figured out this has to be configured in <code>GConf</code>, for example using <code>gconf-editor</code>, simply replace:</p>