error: no valid connection

error: Failed to reconnect to the hypervisor

error: no valid connection

error: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': No such file or directory

Further investigation found avahi was needed for this to work. The final fix was running

yum -y install avahi

/etc/init.d/messagebus restart

/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon restart

/etc/init.d/libvirtd restart

/sbin/chkconfig messagebus on

/sbin/chkconfig avahi-daemon on