[Libguestfs] [PATCH] launch: show hint to resolve authentication failure from libvirt

[Olaf Hering]

On Wed, Oct 10, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> libguestfs use of libvirt is a bit of a mess at the moment, since we
> end up opening two connections if you use the -d option ... this is
> something I'm intending to fix.
> 
> Nevertheless, it should be using NULL everywhere, so depending on
> whether you run it as root or not, it will use qemu:///system
> or qemu:///session.
> 
> It's somewhere on the to-do list to:
> 
>   (1) Fix the utilities so they only need to open one connection
>       (this will matter in the remote case).
> 
>   (2) Support authentication in libvirt by mapping libvirt auth
>       callbacks to libguestfs events.

Is this the reason why the first command fails, but the others work ok
for me?

virt-filesystems -v -c qemu+ssh:///system  -d sles11sp2 --all --long

virt-rescue -v -c qemu+ssh:///system  -d opensuse12 -r
virsh -c qemu+ssh:///system list --all


Olaf