Virt-Manager errors

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hi folks,

im creating a windows vm to game and in virt-manager i get the error:

Unable to connect to libvirt qemu:///system.

Verify that the ‘libvirtd’ daemon is running.

Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py”, line 922, in _do_open
self._backend.open(cb, data)
File “/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/connection.py”, line 153, in open
conn = libvirt.openAuth(self._open_uri,
File “/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/libvirt.py”, line 104, in openAuth
if ret is None:raise libvirtError(‘virConnectOpenAuth() failed’)
libvirt.libvirtError: Failed to connect socket to ‘/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock’: Connection refused

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Try running

sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd.service

then try again.

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same error

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Weird,restart the computer just in case.

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yea rebooted and same error

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@XRaTiX post was meant to ensurelibvirtd.service is running. Check with:

$ systemctl status libvirtd.service

Has that socket been created?

ls -l /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/libvirt#Set_up_authentication
Is your user a member of libvirt group?

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Thank you guys. This was very helpful for me.