If I try to run "vdsm-tool restore-nets", which is what starting the vdsm-network.service seems to do first, I get the following: ( a large number of lines of the first error) ...... libvirt: XML-RPC error : authentication failed: authentication failed libvirt: XML-RPC error : authentication failed: authentication failed libvirt: XML-RPC error : authentication failed: authentication failed libvirt: XML-RPC error : authentication failed: authentication failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/vdsm/vdsm-restore-net-config", line 476, in <module> restore(args) File "/usr/share/vdsm/vdsm-restore-net-config", line 434, in restore _restore_sriov_numvfs() File "/usr/share/vdsm/vdsm-restore-net-config", line 84, in _restore_sriov_numvfs sriov_devices = _get_sriov_devices() File "/usr/share/vdsm/vdsm-restore-net-config", line 56, in _get_sriov_devices devices = hostdev.list_by_caps() File "/usr/share/vdsm/hostdev.py", line 219, in list_by_caps libvirt_devices = _get_devices_from_libvirt() File "/usr/share/vdsm/hostdev.py", line 204, in _get_devices_from_libvirt for device in libvirtconnection.get().listAllDevices(0)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/libvirtconnection.py", line 164, in get password) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/libvirtconnection.py", line 100, in open_connection return utils.retry(libvirtOpen, timeout=10, sleep=0.2) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/utils.py", line 959, in retry return func() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 104, in openAuth if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed') libvirt.libvirtError: authentication failed: authentication failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/vdsm-tool", line 219, in main return tool_command[cmd]["command"](*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/tool/restore_nets.py", line 41, in restore_command exec_restore(cmd) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/tool/restore_nets.py", line 54, in exec_restore raise EnvironmentError('Failed to restore the persisted networks') EnvironmentError: Failed to restore the persisted networks