Re: Can RHEL7 VM run remote commands to Fedora36 host?

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On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 08:18:17AM +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 01:18:00PM -0400, Carol Bouchard wrote:
> > I have a Fedora36 laptop which hosts VMs with RHEL7 using libvirt.  One of
> > the RHEL7 VMs, runs remote commands (as root) to 'start' another VM by
> > way of my laptop.  In other words,  the following command is run:
> > virsh --connect 'qemu+ssh://192.168.120.1/system' start
> > beaker-test-vm1.beaker
> > If I run non-remote version of the command on the laptop, it is successful.
> > For example,
> > virsh --connect qemu:///system start beaker-test-vm1.beaker  <-- Successful
> > on laptop.
> > 
> > If I do a query like the following *(notice socket use)*, it is successful.
> > virsh -d0 --connect
> > 'qemu+ssh://192.168.120.1/system?*socket*=/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro'
> > domstate beaker-test-vm1.beaker
> > 
> > Without socket, I get the following error:
> > 
> > *error: failed to connect to the hypervisor*
> > 
> > *error: End of file while reading data: Ncat: No such file or directory.:
> > Input/output error*
> > 
> > This does not work for 'start' because I believe this is a read-only socket
> > since I see the error:
> > error: Failed to start domain beaker-test-vm1.beaker
> > error: operation forbidden: read only access prevents virDomainCreate
> > 
> > When I look at my laptop, there is no /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock.
> > So.....I've been wondering
> > whether RHEL7 virsh/libvirt is compatible with Fedora36.  Is there a
> > work-around?  I can't
> > change the distros on my laptop or VMs.
> 
> Hello,
> since Fedora 35 libvirt has used the modular daemons architecture. What this
> means for you (and appears very confusing) is that when you try starting a VM
> locally on your F36 laptop, your virsh client doesn't connect to libvirt-sock
> anymore, there's a dedicated connection socket for each of the daemons now and
> instead will connect to virtqemud-sock.
> Now, old virsh clients like the one you have on your RHEL7 don't know about
> this and expect to connect to libvirt-sock instead. In order to create that
> socket and restore functionality for old clients you need to start and enable
> the virtproxyd.socket systemd unit which proxies old client connections to the
> new sockets we have. Why the virtproxyd socket isn't running by default unless
> you disabled it beats me, since:
> 
> $ systemctl status virtproxyd
> Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/virtproxyd.socket; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
>                                                                                 ^^^here^^^
> 
> is set correctly after installation.
> Anyhow, just do:
> $ sudo systemctl enable --now virtproxyd.socket
> 
> on your laptop and you're good to go
> 
> Regards,
> Erik
> 
> So, if you don't have the libvirt-sock created that means the virtproxyd.socket
> systemd unit isn't active. Just enable the socket and try again.
> 
> Here, I simulated it for you with my VMs:
> 
> VM1:
> $ cat /etc/os-release
> NAME="Fedora Linux"
> VERSION="36 (Thirty Six)"
> ...

Uhm, sorry for the noise in ^this very last paragraph, it's a leftover draft of
my response...

Erik




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