When running virt-who service, the error messages is seen in /var/log/rhsm/rhsm.log

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

When running virt-who service, the following message is seen in /var/log/rhsm/rhsm.log

2015-01-20 22:24:52,195 [WARNING]  @libvirtd.py:77 - Unable to connect to libvirt: internal error Unable to locate libvirtd daemon in /usr/sbin (to override, set $LIBVIRTD_PATH to the name of the libvirtd binary)
2015-01-20 22:24:52,196 [ERROR]  @libvirtd.py:131 - Error in libvirt backend
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-who/virt/libvirtd/libvirtd.py", line 129, in _connect
    self.virt = libvirt.openReadOnly('')
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 247, in openReadOnly
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenReadOnly() failed')
libvirtError: internal error Unable to locate libvirtd daemon in /usr/sbin (to override, set $LIBVIRTD_PATH to the name of the libvirtd binary)
2015-01-20 22:24:52,196 [ERROR]  @virtwho.py:121 - Unable to recover, retry in 60 seconds.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • virt-who service

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