Enhancement for when no hypervisor can be found locally it opens the new connection dialog. Index: virt-manager-1.3.2/virtManager/engine.py =================================================================== --- virt-manager-1.3.2.orig/virtManager/engine.py +++ virt-manager-1.3.2/virtManager/engine.py @@ -236,9 +236,6 @@ class vmmEngine(vmmGObject): except: logging.exception("Error talking to PackageKit") - if tryuri is None: - tryuri = "qemu:///system" - warnmsg = _("The 'libvirtd' service will need to be started.\n\n" "After that, virt-manager will connect to libvirt on\n" "the next application start up.") @@ -252,7 +249,11 @@ class vmmEngine(vmmGObject): if not connected and do_start: manager.err.ok(_("Libvirt service must be started"), warnmsg) - self.idle_add(idle_connect) + # If there is no default URI to be found, show the new connection dialog + if tryuri is None: + self._do_show_connect(self.windowManager) + else: + self.idle_add(idle_connect) def load_stored_uris(self):