[libvirt] Problem with remote xend over ssh tunnel

[Daniel Veillard]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:56:20AM -0700, waheed iqbal wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I am able to connect remote xend using http but whenever I try to connect remote machine using  "virsh -c xen+ssh://root@...../ list" I found following error:
> 
> libvir: Remote error : socket closed unexpectedly
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
> 
> libvirtd is running on both systems and netcat is also installed on both machines.
[...]
> root at node1's password: 
> libvir: Remote error : socket closed unexpectedly

  Hum, I'm not sure the need to authenticate manually works correctly
and in any case it's really inconvenient. Set up the authentication
agent using ssh-add (or other convenience on your desktop) and make sure
you can ssh to root as host1 with it.

Daniel

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