On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 01:02:34PM +0200, Shahar Havivi wrote: > On 03.11.15 15:37, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 10:14:00AM +0200, Shahar Havivi wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am trying to connect to remote libvirt via script, > > > and I get password prompt from the shell. > > > > > > > > > ============================================================================ > > > uri='xen+ssh://root@myserver/?no_verify=1' > > > def req(credentials, user_data): > > > print('in req...\n') > > > for cred in credentials: > > > if cred[0] == libvirt.VIR_CRED_AUTHNAME: > > > cred[4] = username > > > elif cred[0] == libvirt.VIR_CRED_PASSPHRASE: > > > cred[4] = passwd > > > return 0 > > > > > > auth = [[libvirt.VIR_CRED_AUTHNAME, libvirt.VIR_CRED_PASSPHRASE], req, None] > > > con = libvirt.openAuth(uri, auth, 0) > > > ============================================================================ > > > > > > The script never enter req() method but prompts for password, after I enter > > > the password I am able to connect to the remote machine. > > > > The '+ssh' method actually spawns the /usr/bin/ssh binary to connect to > > the remote host. As such libvirt has no API mechanism to handle credential > > collection for the binary via openAuth(). So the only viable way to use the > > +ssh method is with SSH keys and SSH agent, to avoid any interactive auth > > prompts. > > > > There is an alternative method +libssh2 which uses the libssh2 library > > instead of SSH binary. This allows libvirt to collect credentials via > > the openAuth() method. > > > > http://libvirt.org/remote.html#Remote_URI_reference > Thank you Daniel, > Decided to go with xen+ssh with public key authentication which works fine. > I notice a problem in several methods that returns: > "libvirt: Remote Driver error : unknown procedure: 273" > > for example listDefinedDomains works fine: > In [104]: con.listDefinedDomains() > Out[104]: ['fedora22'] > > but listAllDomains fails: > ============================================================================ > In [105]: con.listAllDomains() > libvirt: Remote Driver error : unknown procedure: 273 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > libvirtError Traceback (most recent call last) > <ipython-input-105-a702d3dbcff3> in <module>() > ----> 1 con.listAllDomains() > > /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.pyc in listAllDomains(self, flags) > 4925 ret = libvirtmod.virConnectListAllDomains(self._o, flags) > 4926 if ret is None: > -> 4927 raise libvirtError("virConnectListAllDomains() > failed", conn=self) > 4928 > 4929 retlist = list() > ============================================================================ > > Any suggestion why? That means the libvirtd daemon you are connecting to does not support that API call. Presumably because it is an older version that your client libvirt version. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users