On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 03:03:12PM +0200, Lentes, Bernd wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for asking a simple question, but i'm confused. What is virt-viewer > intended to be ? > To connect directly to virtual machine consoles, e.g. with VNC ? > Or connect to libvirtd which runs e.g. on a remote linux host ? > Or both ? Both. the 'virt-viewer' binary connects to libvirtd (local or remote) and looks up the VNC / SPICE console address for the guest, and then connects to that. The 'remote-viewer' binary connects directly to the VNC or SPICE address you give it, avoiding libvirtd. > > If i'm able to connect to libvirtd on a remote host, what can i do ? I > think the functionality of virt-viewer is limited compared to virt-manager. > This page (https://libvirt.org/windows.html) gaves me the impression > that i can connect with virt-viewer to a libvirtd on a remote host. Yes, it will work > I tried to connect to a libvirtd on a linux host host using virt-viewer > and the following in the adress bar: qemu+tcp://192.168.100.10 and L> qemu+tcp://192.168.100.1016509, but didn't succeed. > The port 16509 on the linux host is opened in the firewall and libvirtd > is listening on it. The URIs are malformed - you're missing the path component. eg qemu+tcp://192.168.100.10/system FYI, you can test using 'virsh -c URI' - if virsh succeeds, virt-viewer would too. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
