On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 03:21:46 PM Glenn Holmer wrote: > On 12/31/2014 02:33 PM, Flavio Leitner wrote: > > On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 02:11:38 PM Glenn Holmer wrote: > >> I'm trying to connect to another machine using virt-manager (File/Add > >> Connection). I select QEMU/KVM as hypervisor, "connect to remote host", > >> method SSH, and a username and hostname on the remote machine. The > >> result is always that I get prompted for my passphrase, but then see > >> "authentication failed: no agent is available to authenticate". I get > >> this going from either machine to the other. > >> > >> Virtualization is set up OK because I can run virtual machines on both > >> VM hosts. SSH is set up OK, I can ssh with public key in both directions > >> both as myself and as root. I tried "setenforce 0" on both machines to > >> see if SELinux was blocking it, but the result was the same. > >> > >> What am I missing? > > > > Do you see the process ssh-agent running? > > I see this on both machines: > > /usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/sh -c exec -l /bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/startkde" > Right, do you see your identity there? $ ssh-add -l If so, is there any chance of you are running the virt-manager out of the established session? I'd start the virt-manager on the same shell running the ssh-add above to confirm. I just tried here with F21 and I could add a remote hypervisor using ssh keys. fbl -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org