On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 09:54:51AM -0500, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote: > I have a SPICE-enabled QEMU VM running on a host, with SPICE-enabled > virt-viewer available on both the same host and a nearby machine on > the LAN; when I try to connect thusly: > > virt-viewer --connect qemu://host GuestName > > it pops up "Unable to connect to libvirt with URI qemu://host". If that really is the URL you used, then you're missing the '/system' part of the end ie you need qemu://hostname/system NB, this is assuming you've configured TLS & > Already verified that firewall is off on the host (it's Arch Linux). > Is there something else to do to permit connection like this? I've > also tried by VM number (there's only 1 right now) and UUID, same > results. I can reach the host by GUI through virt-manager very > well, working very nicely with sound and everything. If you look at the connection details in virt-manager, it should tell you the full URI it used - use exactly the same URI with virt-viewer. 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 :|