libvirtError: virConnectOpen() failed - error is uninformative

[Brian Murray]

1) Hardy Heron
2) bdmurray@bizarro:~$ apt-cache policy python-virtinst
python-virtinst:
  Installed: 0.300.2-0ubuntu6
  Candidate: 0.300.2-0ubuntu6
  Version table:
 *** 0.300.2-0ubuntu6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.300.2-0ubuntu5 0--connect=qemu://s
ystem
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

I mistyped connect as --connect=qemu://system instead of --connect=qemu:///system. Notice I had only 2 / s. This failed quite uninformatively.

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:06:59 ERROR virConnectOpen() failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 519, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 365, in main
    conn = cli.getConnection(options.connect)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/cli.py", line 75, in getConnection
    return libvirt.open(connect)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 135, in open
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpen() failed')
libvirtError: virConnectOpen() failed

Is this more informative in Intrepid or could / should it be?

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for reporting this issue. Are you still able to reproduce this with a current version of Ubuntu, such as 10.10 (maverick)?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Nope.