On Thu, 2017-05-11 at 15:03 +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 ? and SPICE > Or connect to libvirtd which runs e.g. on a remote linux host ? > Or both ? can do both - to connect to vm, it first has to connect to libvirt There is also remote-viewer which allows you to connect directly to the vm > > 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. compared to virt-manager it has multimonitor support, folder sharing, it shows progress bar with file transfer (SPICE features). remote-viewer also works on Windows. > 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. > > 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 qemu+tcp://192.168.100.1016509, but > didn't succeed. please see the man page, it has a few examples: virt-viewer -c qemu+ssh://root@host/system > The port 16509 on the linux host is opened in the firewall and > libvirtd is listening on it. > > Is virt-viewer able to do this ? > > Thanks. > > > Bernd > _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
