libvirt doesn't create virtqemud-sock on macos

Question

I've installed qemu and libvirt on macos big sur with m1 using macports. When i've tried install libvirt with homebrew, it was broken (asked /proc/cpuinfo, lol). Libvirt started as daemon, i've got libvirt-sock on unix-socket directory, but have no virtqemud-sock.

Actions (all with sudo):

port install qemu

port install libvirt

virsh -c qemu:///system

Result:

error: unable to connect to socket «/opt/local/var/run/libvirt/virtqemud-sock»: No such file or directory

Answer 1

Libvirt started as daemon, i've got libvirt-sock on unix-socket directory, but have no virtqemud-sock.

Libvirt has two ways to running - the monolithic daemon (libvirtd) is the traditional approach and the modular daemons (virt${XXXX}d for varying ${XXXX}) is the new way. The libvirt client here is attempting to connect to the modular daemon virtqemud, but it seems like you've started the monolithic libvirtd

More guidance can be found at

https://libvirt.org/daemons.html https://libvirt.org/uri.html#mode-parameter