How do you start a VM from the Node

Hello,

Ok, so 2 hosts running Deb 8, Sunstone in a VM was on VMWare ESXi but migrated to a VM on one of the KVM nodes (only 1 host currently running).

We had a raid issue and after some work booted and now cannot access the frontend as its VM is not running, so cannot run onevm or onehost etc, so i need to start the VM’s from the node.

On the node when i issue virsh list --all as oneadmin, [my login] or root i get an empty list. virsh -c qemu:///system list --all and virsh -c qemu:///session list --all also returns an empty list. I tried issuing virsh start one-54 (which is a valid VM) results in:

error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: no valid connection
error: Cannot create user runtime directory '/run/user/1000/libvirt': Permission denied

for oneadmin and:

error: failed to get domain 'one-54'
error: Domain not found: no domain with matching name 'one-54'

for root.

I’m sure i have been able to use virsh without issue from this node in the past. I’ve changed permissions for the dir above but oneadmin then reports error: failed to get domain 'one-54' etc.

How can i start these VM’s from the Node?


Versions of the related components and OS (frontend, hypervisors, VMs):
Node: Deb 8, ON 5.8.1,
Frontend: Deb 9