Why did I get "Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon. Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system" error when I tried to start the virt-manager graphics tool ?

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Issue

Why did I get "Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon.  Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system" error when I tried to start the virt-manager graphics tool ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • libvirt
  • virt-manager

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