Why virsh commands are failing with error "Failed to connect socket to libvirt-sock No such file or directory"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • All virsh commands executed by the user other than root is failing with the error below.
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: Failed to connect socket to '/home/test_user/.cache/libvirt/libvirt-sock': No such file or directory
  • The same virsh command will work if the user runs the command again within 30 seconds.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7.

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