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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Hi,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I’m interested</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">in</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">using libvirt to communicate with Microsoft’s Hyper-V. I’m trying to use virsh, but with no success. I have a machine that runs Windows Server Developer Preview with Hyper-V on it, ip x.x.x.x</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I set the service Basic and AlloUnencrypted properties on this machine to true, as required</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I also have a Linux machine x.x.y.y, with libvirt installed. This is what I get:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">virsh -c hyperv://x.x.x.x/?transport=http</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">error: Cannot read CA certificate '/etc/pki/CA/cacert.pem': No such file or directory</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">error: failed to connect to the hypervisor</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">My questions are:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">1. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">As I understand, if my hypervisor was on Linux, there’s a daemon “libvirtd” that should be installed on it. Is there an equivalent service for Windows?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> I installed</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">this thing on the Hyper-V machine:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://libvirt.org/sources/win32_experimental/Libvirt-0.8.8-0.exe"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://libvirt.org/sources/win32_experimental/Libvirt-0.8.8-0.exe</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, but am not sure about its purpose.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">2. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Why do I get an error about certificate, when I specified the transport to be http?</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Vadim</FONT></SPAN></P>
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