Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

[Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com>]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 08:43:53PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:

New information. If I start virt-manager as root I get a different error:

Error starting Virtual Machine Manager: No D-BUS daemon running


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 383, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 315, in main
    config = virtManager.config.vmmConfig(appname, appversion, glade_dir)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/config.py", line 98, in __init__
    self.conf.add_dir(self.conf_dir, gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE)
GError: No D-BUS daemon running


Oddly enough, I still get this error if I start virt-manager as root with
the "--no-dbus" flag. Why is it ignoring the flag?
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