Hi Patrick -
Thanks! Adding "/system" on the end of the URI made a difference. Now it will
ask me for the password, then open a new window that says "Waiting for display
1". I verified that the target guest is running.
Odd behavior - When I close the new window, the command shell I ran it from no
longer echos commands to the screen. It takes them if I type blindly. I have
to kill and restart bash to get it back.
I set up a new menu item in KDE to launch virt-viewer. That works! It gets
me all the way to the remote display. It asks for the kwallet password and
for the host machine root password twice - but it does get there.
Regards - Bill Gee
On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 16:03:49 Patrick Bervoets wrote:
> I use
> --connect=qemu+ssh://root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/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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