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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>When I build from source KVM and Libvirt (Ubuntu 8.10 desktop), I found that Libvirtd could not connect to<br /> <br /> virsh -c qemu:///system<br /> complaining that it couldnt connect to the hypervisor. I found that the qemu driver in virsh was hard coded to look in the following places for the qemu executable:<br /> <br /> <br /> if ((virFileExists(&quot;/usr/bin/qemu&quot;)) ||<br /> (virFileExists(&quot;/usr/bin/qemu-kvm&quot;)) ||<br /> (virFileExists(&quot;/usr/bin/kvm&quot;)) ||<br /> (virFileExists(&quot;/usr/bin/xenner&quot;)))<br /> return 1;<br /> <br /> <br /> The solution was to symlink<br /> <br /> /usr/bin/kvm -&gt; /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64<br /> <br /> <br /> Then the libvirtd qemu driver found, and it all worked great</div>

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