permission denied setting up a kvm machine

[Leo Arias]

I'm trying to set up a kvm machine, but it fails on setup with the following error:

ERROR:
  command: virsh list --all
  retcode: 1
  output:

  error: error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: no valid connection
error: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': Permission denied

This is my uci-vms.conf file:

[utopic-pristine]
vm.name=utopic-pristine
vm.class=kvm
vm.release=utopic
vm.cpu_model=amd64

To reproduce, run:

python uci-vms setup utopic-pristine --download

I'm using uci-vms from trunk on an utopic kvm.

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

Are you a member of the libvirtd group ?

If that's the root cause, uci-vms should emit a better message.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

I am.

$ groups
elopio adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare autopilot libvirtd

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

> I am.

Damn, I need a way to reproduce then :-/ Or at least more details about what is causing the issue.

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

This has been tracked in the test suite for quite some time now.

Several similar cases have been fixed but the issue is not fixed: there are races involved when trying to use libvirt this way.

Basically qemu/kvm should be used instead of libvirt so this bug won't be fixed. Sorry.