Journalctl -u libvirtd

journalctl -r -u libvirtd | grep -i error journalctl -f -u libvirtd | grep -i error

/var/log/libvirt/qemu/

Configuration

/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf
#log_level = 3

Logs

Jun 02 10:18:44 SERVER libvirtd[14155]: 2020-07-02 06:18:44.477+0000: 14157: error : virStorageFileReportBrokenChain:431 : Cannot access storage file '/path/to/file.qcow2' (as uid:64055, gid:116): No such file or directory

libvirtd[14189]: 2019-11-21 15:08:13.035+0000: 14192: error : qemuDomainBlockCommit:17568 : invalid argument: top '/path/to/file/VM_NAME.qcow2' in chain for 'hda' has no backing file

Jul 01 20:29:54 XXXX libvirtd[2243]: 2020-07-01 16:29:54.441+0000: 3788: error : qemuDomainObjBeginJobInternal:4945 : Timed out during operation: cannot acquire state change lock (held by remoteDispatchDomainBlockJobAbort)

Aug 09 10:45:23 XXX libvirtd[14155]: 2020-08-09 06:45:23.902+0000: 14160: warning : qemuDomainObjBeginJobInternal:4933 : Cannot start job (modify, none) for domain YOUR_VM_NAM<E; current job is (modify, none) owned by (14159 remoteDispatchDomainBlockJobAbort, 0 <null>) for (38551s, 0s)

libvirtd[14155]: 2020-07-21 07:20:59.032+0000: 14155: error : qemuMonitorIO:719 : internal error: End of file from qemu monitor

Related commands

• journalctl -u libvirtd

See also

• virsh: Storage information, Connecting, Operations, Memory, Snapshots, Networking, CPU, release notes, virsh nodedev-list
• libvirtd: systemctl status libvirtd, systemctl status libvirt-guests, Libvirt release notes, logs, libvirtd.conf, /etc/libvirt/, /var/log/libvirt/
• KVM, Installation, QEMU, virsh, virtinst, libguestfs-tools, libvirt, qemu, Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), MacVTap, Virtio, oVirt, KVM services, KVM networking, KVM graphics, CPU, KVM on ARM