i am also seeing the error in centos7 since a couple of days ago when they updated libvirt libvirt-devel version to 2.0.0-10.el7_3.2 SETUPTOOLS_SYS_PATH_TECHNIQUE=rewrite /usr/bin/pip install -c /opt/stack/new/requirements/upper-constraints.txt 'libvirt-python>=1.2.5' 2016-12-12 19:15:56.726 | Ignoring dnspython3: markers "python_version=='3.4'" don't match your environment 2016-12-12 19:15:57.013 | Collecting libvirt-python===1.3.0 (from -c /opt/stack/new/requirements/upper-constraints.txt (line 159)) 2016-12-12 19:15:57.275 | Downloading libvirt-python-1.3.0.tar.gz (171kB) 2016-12-12 19:15:59.470 | Building wheels for collected packages: libvirt-python 2016-12-12 19:15:59.471 | Running setup.py bdist_wheel for libvirt-python 2016-12-12 19:16:00.881 | Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-iha10m/libvirt-python/setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/tmp3I6DlEpip-wheel-: 2016-12-12 19:16:00.881 | running bdist_wheel 2016-12-12 19:16:00.881 | running build 2016-12-12 19:16:00.881 | /usr/bin/pkg-config --print-errors --atleast-version=0.9.11 libvirt 2016-12-12 19:16:00.881 | /usr/bin/python generator.py libvirt /usr/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-api.xml 2016-12-12 19:16:00.881 | Found 413 functions in /usr/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-api.xml 2016-12-12 19:16:00.881 | Found 0 functions in libvirt-override-api.xml 2016-12-12 19:16:00.882 | Generated 341 wrapper functions 2016-12-12 19:16:00.882 | Missing type converters: 2016-12-12 19:16:00.882 | virTypedParameterPtr:1 2016-12-12 19:16:00.882 | virTypedParameterPtr *:2 2016-12-12 19:16:00.882 | virConnectStoragePoolEventGenericCallback:1 2016-12-12 19:16:00.882 | ERROR: failed virConnectStoragePoolEventRegisterAny 2016-12-12 19:16:00.882 | ERROR: failed virDomainGetGuestVcpus 2016-12-12 19:16:00.882 | ERROR: failed virDomainGetPerfEvents 2016-12-12 19:16:00.882 | ERROR: failed virDomainSetPerfEvents 2016-12-12 19:16:00.882 | error: command '/usr/bin/python' failed with exit status 1 2016-12-12 19:16:00.882 | 2016-12-12 19:16:00.882 | ---------------------------------------- 2016-12-12 19:16:00.882 | Failed building wheel for libvirt-python 2016-12-12 19:16:00.882 | Failed to build libvirt-python 2016-12-12 19:16:00.884 | Installing collected packages: libvirt-python 2016-12-12 19:16:00.884 | Running setup.py install for libvirt-python 2016-12-12 19:16:02.269 | Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-iha10m/libvirt-python/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-zYmUO3-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile: 2016-12-12 19:16:02.269 | running install 2016-12-12 19:16:02.269 | running build 2016-12-12 19:16:02.269 | /usr/bin/pkg-config --print-errors --atleast-version=0.9.11 libvirt 2016-12-12 19:16:02.269 | /usr/bin/python generator.py libvirt /usr/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-api.xml 2016-12-12 19:16:02.270 | Found 413 functions in /usr/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-api.xml 2016-12-12 19:16:02.270 | Found 0 functions in libvirt-override-api.xml 2016-12-12 19:16:02.270 | Generated 341 wrapper functions 2016-12-12 19:16:02.270 | Missing type converters: 2016-12-12 19:16:02.270 | virTypedParameterPtr:1 2016-12-12 19:16:02.270 | virTypedParameterPtr *:2 2016-12-12 19:16:02.270 | virConnectStoragePoolEventGenericCallback:1 2016-12-12 19:16:02.270 | ERROR: failed virConnectStoragePoolEventRegisterAny 2016-12-12 19:16:02.270 | ERROR: failed virDomainGetGuestVcpus 2016-12-12 19:16:02.270 | ERROR: failed virDomainGetPerfEvents 2016-12-12 19:16:02.270 | ERROR: failed virDomainSetPerfEvents 2016-12-12 19:16:02.270 | error: command '/usr/bin/python' failed with exit status 1 2016-12-12 19:16:02.270 | 2016-12-12 19:16:02.270 | ---------------------------------------- 2016-12-12 19:16:02.273 | Command "/usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-iha10m/libvirt-python/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-zYmUO3-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-iha10m/libvirt-python 2016-12-12 19:16:02.309 | You are using pip version 7.1.2, however version 9.0.1 is available. 2016-12-12 19:16:02.309 | You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command. 2016-12-12 19:16:02.360 | + exit_trap 2016-12-12 19:16:02.360 | + local r=1