All \fBvirsh\fR operations rely upon the libvirt library.
For any virsh commands to run xend/qemu, or what ever virtual library that libvirt supports. For this reason you should start xend/qemu as a service when your system first boots using xen/qemu. This can usually be done using the command
-\&\fBservice start libvirtd\fR .
+\&\fB/etc/init.d/libvirt-bin start\fR .
-\&\fBservice libvirtd start\fR .
+\&\fBinvoke-rc.dlibvirt-bin start\fR .
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Most \fBvirsh\fR commands require root privileges to run due to the
communications channels used to talk to the hypervisor. Running as