Use the correct systemd to start libvirt. Index: virt-manager-1.2.0/virtManager/packageutils.py =================================================================== --- virt-manager-1.2.0.orig/virtManager/packageutils.py +++ virt-manager-1.2.0/virtManager/packageutils.py @@ -154,8 +154,8 @@ def start_libvirtd(): logging.debug("libvirtd not running, asking system-config-services " "to start it") scs = Gio.DBusProxy.new_sync(bus, 0, None, - "org.fedoraproject.Config.Services", - "/org/fedoraproject/Config/Services/systemd1", + "org.freedesktop.systemd1", + "/org/freedesktop/systemd1", "org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager", None) scs.StartUnit("(ss)", unitname, "replace") time.sleep(2)