--- virt-manager-1.3.1/virtManager/engine.py.orig	2015-12-26 19:39:11.909828597 +0100
+++ virt-manager-1.3.1/virtManager/engine.py	2015-12-26 23:15:10.120220049 +0100
@@ -214,33 +214,7 @@
     def _add_default_conn(self):
         manager = self.get_manager()
 
-        # Manager fail message
-        msg = _("Could not detect a default hypervisor. Make\n"
-                "sure the appropriate virtualization packages\n"
-                "are installed (kvm, qemu, libvirt, etc.), and\n"
-                "that libvirtd is running.\n\n"
-                "A hypervisor connection can be manually\n"
-                "added via File->Add Connection")
-
-        logging.debug("Determining default libvirt URI")
-
-        ret = None
-        try:
-            libvirt_packages = self.config.libvirt_packages
-            packages = self.config.hv_packages + libvirt_packages
-
-            ret = packageutils.check_packagekit(manager, manager.err, packages)
-        except:
-            logging.exception("Error talking to PackageKit")
-
-        if ret:
-            tryuri = "qemu:///system"
-        else:
-            tryuri = vmmConnect.default_uri()
-
-        if tryuri is None:
-            manager.set_startup_error(msg)
-            return
+        tryuri = "qemu:///system"
 
         warnmsg = _("The 'libvirtd' service will need to be started.\n\n"
                     "After that, virt-manager will connect to libvirt on\n"