[CentOS] Secret incantations for virt-viewer?

[Bill Gee]

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
> > 
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