What were you trying to do that didn't work?

Fail to use getType() to get the name of the Hypervisor driver used.

Please provide the package NVR for which bug is seen:

libvirt-9.10.0-1.el9.x86_64
python3-libvirt-9.3.0-1.el9.x86_64

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to reproduce

>>> import libvirt
>>> conn = libvirt.open("qemu:///system")
>>> conn.getType()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 4751, in getType
    ret = libvirtmod.virConnectGetType(self._o)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 3: invalid start byte

Expected results

Get succeeds.

Actual results

Get failed.

Additional info:

libvirt-9.9.0-1.el9.x86_64
python3-libvirt-9.3.0-1.el9.x86_64

>>> import libvirt
>>> conn = libvirt.open("qemu:///system")
>>> conn.getType()
'QEMU'