I’ve been getting this error for a while now, and decided to troubleshoot.
● libvirt-bin.service - Virtualization daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/libvirt-bin.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2019-02-06 13:56:02 EST; 7ms ago
Docs: man:libvirtd(8)
http://libvirt.org
Process: 2699 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/libvirtd $libvirtd_opts (code=exited, status=6)
Main PID: 2699 (code=exited, status=6)
CGroup: /system.slice/libvirt-bin.service
└─2716 /usr/sbin/libvirtd
followed by this:
my_server.my_domain.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Virtualization daemon.
my_server.my_domain.com systemd[1]: libvirt-bin.service: Unit entered failed state.
my_server.my_domain.com systemd[1]: libvirt-bin.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.