Connect to VM fails with the error : "error: Failed to connect socket to '@/sysadmin/.libvirt/libvirt-sock': Connection refused"
Issue
Trying to connect to console of the KVM virtual machine.
It´s failing with the error message below :
"error: Failed to connect socket to '@/sysadmin/.libvirt/libvirt-sock': Connection refused"
Some outputs from the server :
sudo virsh list --all
[sudo] password for userxx:
Id Name State
----------------------------------
18 vm1 running
20 vm2 running
virsh console vm1
error: Failed to reconnect to the hypervisor
error: no valid connection
error: Failed to connect socket to '@/sysadmin/.libvirt/libvirt-sock': Connection refused
Following errors are also seen in /var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log
error : daemonStreamHandleAbort:590 : stream aborted at client request
error : virFileOpenAsNoFork:668 : failed to create file '/mnt/dumpfile': Permission denied
error : virFileOpenAsNoFork:668 : failed to create file '/mnt/dumpfile': Permission denied
error : qemuOpenFile:2332 : Error from child process creating '/mnt/dumpfile': Permission denied
error : virFileOpenAsNoFork:687 : cannot chown '/mnt/dumpfile' to (0, 0): Operation not permitted
error : virFileOpenAsNoFork:687 : cannot chown '/mnt/dumpfile' to (107, 107): Operation not permitted
error : qemuOpenFile:2332 : Error from child process creating '/mnt/dumpfile': Operation not permitted
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
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