Virtual Machine Manager - Unable to connect to libvirt qemu:///system

Hi,

I installed Virtual Machine Manager.

When I try to create a new Virtual Machine I receive below errors:

Let me know how to fix this, thanks!

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

Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/virtqemud-sock': No such file or directory

Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 923, in _do_open
    self._backend.open(cb, data)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/connection.py", line 171, in open
    conn = libvirt.openAuth(self._open_uri,
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 147, in openAuth
    raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
libvirt.libvirtError: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/virtqemud-sock': No such file or directory

Did you also configure it?
Are you, for example, in the libvirt user group?
… point two in the Arch wiki about Virt-manager:

Virt-manager - ArchWiki

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Just to clarify, the error occurs already when creating, configuring a new VM, not only when running it?
Is libvirtd running?
systemctl status libvirtd.service
is it enabled?
systemctl enable --now virtqemud.socket
maybe try to restart the libvirt daemon
systemctl restart libvirtd.service