# uname -a FreeBSD vhost01.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca 12.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE-p5 GENERIC amd64 Virt-manager cannot connect to libvirt qemu hypervisor. Expected behaviour: virt-manager can connect to QEMU libvirt socket Observed behaviour: Virtual Machine Connection Failure Unable to connect to libvirt qemu:///system Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/virtqemud-sock': No susch file or directory 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/local/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 923, in _do_open self._backend.open(cb, data) File "/usr/local/share/virt-manager/virtinst/connection.py", line 153, in open conn = libvirt.openAuth(self._open_uri, File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/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 Contents of /run/run/libvirt/ s -l /var/run/libvirt/ total 15 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 4 Aug 3 12:32 bhyve drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 3 Jul 28 12:37 common srwx------ 1 root wheel 0 Jul 28 12:37 libvirt-admin-sock srwxrwx--- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 28 12:37 libvirt-sock srwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 0 Jul 28 12:37 libvirt-sock-ro drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Jul 17 2020 lockd drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 4 Jul 28 12:37 network drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 3 Jul 28 12:37 secrets drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 6 Aug 2 16:20 storage