Jon Smith wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Cole Robinson <crobinso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Jon Smith wrote: >>> virt-manager and libvirtd both functioning locally. I tried to use >>> virt-manager to access the same libvirtd host remotely but I'm having >>> some trouble. >>> >>> I'm using qemu+ssh to connect to the remote host, but when I do, >>> virt-manager turns gray and becomes unresponsive, eventually the part >>> of the window showing the hosts goes blank. If I stop libvirtd on the >>> remote host, virt-manager refreshes itself and shows the libvirtd host >>> as connected, and even lists all the domains available. I'm also able >>> to connect using virsh and that works fine. >>> >>> I can repeat this process over and over again, even after rebooting >>> the hosts involved. I've also run libvirtd with the --verbose flag >>> and can send the output (~80K) if that would help. >>> >> What distro are you using? What virt-manager version? Distro package or >> compiled from source? >> >> How are you invoking virt-manager? Can you try running 'virt-manager >> --no-fork' from the command line, trying to connect to the remote host, >> and seeing if a password prompt pops up in the terminal? >> >> Thanks, >> Cole > > Server is CentOS 5.2, client is fedora 9. Virt-manager version is > 0.5.4 binary RPM from the Fedora repo. The server was Fedora 9 but I > installed CentOS 5.2 on it today and it's using the Xen kernel now and > having the same trouble. Again, locally, virt-manager works > fantastically, but when I try to connect remotely it gives me trouble. > I don't know how it could possibly matter, but I'm connecting back to > another location using vpnc and then opening virt-manager, so I've got > maybe 150ms latency to the libvirtd host. > > I've been launching virt-manager from Applications -> System Tools -> > Virtual Machine Manager. Also I've launched it a few times with > something similar to: $virt-manager -c xen+ssh://10.2.30.12/system. > Now I've also tried: $virt-manager --no-fork -c > xen+ssh://10.2.30.12/system (no password prompt by the way). It seems > to be logging in because, like I said, if I stop libvirtd, I get a > list of the available guests on the libvirtd server. And actually > once I connect if I wait 15 or 20 minutes it will return a list. It > will just freeze up intermittently and it's never responsive to input. > If I try to click on a guest to select it, it will take 2 or 3 > minutes before the selection takes effect and the item is highlighted. Sounds like virt-manager is connecting fine, but the communication with the remote libvirtd is so slow virt-manager is frozen solid waiting for all the polling calls to return. Can you try 'virsh --connect your_remote_uri' from the host you are running virt-manager, and see if there is a large delay when connection, listing domains, etc. If there is though, I'm not sure what could be causing the delays. - Cole _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
