On 03/06/07, Andras Simon <szajmi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 6/3/07, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I thought I'd have a look at playing with QEmu and virt-manager under > F7, and so installed them both from the repos. > > When I fire up virt-manager and select QEmu as the hypervisor I get this: > > Unable to open connection to hypervisor 'qemu:///system' > > Not the most informative message ever. Any ideas as to what I should > do to fix this. > > Also, I notice this: > > # /sbin/service qemu status > qemu binary format handlers are not registered. Some things to check: Does your processor have virtualization extensions? Is virtualization enabled in the BIOS? See http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/FAQ
Yes and yes. I am able to succesfully create and run virtual machines in qemu directly from the command line (using both qemu-kvm and qemu-system-x86_64) - the issue is more with getting virt-manager to work. J.
