Hi Patrick - Thanks! Adding "/system" on the end of the URI made a difference. Now it will ask me for the password, then open a new window that says "Waiting for display 1". I verified that the target guest is running. Odd behavior - When I close the new window, the command shell I ran it from no longer echos commands to the screen. It takes them if I type blindly. I have to kill and restart bash to get it back. I set up a new menu item in KDE to launch virt-viewer. That works! It gets me all the way to the remote display. It asks for the kwallet password and for the host machine root password twice - but it does get there. Regards - Bill Gee On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 16:03:49 Patrick Bervoets wrote: > I use > --connect=qemu+ssh://root@host.company.tl/system virtualname > > greetings > Patrick > > Op 30-12-14 om 15:46 schreef Bill Gee: > > Hello everyone - > > > > I am trying to use virt-viewer to connect to KVM virtual machines running > > on a CentOS7 host. It works great when running directly on the host, but > > I have not been able to figure out the magic connection string to make it > > work from another computer. > > > > On the host, I set selinux to "permissive" and stopped the firewalld > > service. No change, so it is not related to them. > > > > Almost every command I try gives an immediate dialog box that says "Unable > > to connect to libvirt with URI ...". The only command line that gets me > > anything different is this: > > > > virt-viewer --connect xen+ssh://root@practice7.billgee.local/ > > dd2a2ba7-707d-42b5-8c83-94b11ce6e269 > > > > This will ask me for the root password on the host machine and then gives > > me the same "Unable to connect" message. I tried it with a regular user > > account instead of root and got the same result. > > > > I have tried it with and without the "root@" string. I tried using both > > the UUID and the domain name of the guest. I tried all of the following > > protocols: > > > > ssh:// > > qemu:// > > qemu:/// > > xen:// > > xen+ssh:// > > qemu_ssh:// > > qemu+ssh:// > > > > If I open a regular ssh shell using the +X parameter and then launch virt- > > viewer, it works. The connection string in that case is > > > > --connect=qemu:///system > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks - Bill Gee > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos