[CentOS] Secret incantations for virt-viewer?

Tue Dec 30 15:03:49 UTC 2014
Patrick Bervoets <patrick.bervoets at psc-elsene.be>

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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