[libvirt] Problems accessing ESX using libvirt

Matthew Booth mbooth at redhat.com
Thu Apr 8 15:16:22 UTC 2010


I was forwarded the following query relating to v2v:

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There are no firewalls between the hosts and the ESX firewall is
configured to allow all incoming & outgoing connections.

The "virsh -c 'esx://elabhost011.xxx/' list --all" command
also fails in the same way as the virt-v2v command.

When I run the 'virsh list' command it doesn't prompt for a
username/password as in the example below.

If I run tcpdump on the ESX host, when 'virsh list' is run, I see the
packet arrive from the test box and a reply sent back, only these two
packets are sent between the hosts:

	09:51:20.205524 bwyhs0020p.xxx.56436 >
elabhost011.xxx.16514: S 338(0) win 5840 <mss
1460,sackOK,timestamp 1214177495 0,nop,wscale 7> (DF)
	09:51:20.205544 elabhost011.xxx.16514 >
bwyhs0020p.xxx.56436: R 0:9 win 0 (DF)


The problem is there is nothing listening on port 16514 on the ESX host,
hence the "Connection refused" message.

Should the connection be using the TSL port as opposed to a 'ESX' port?
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The user is using libvirt  0.6.3-20.1.el5_4.

Unfortunately I'm not intimately familiar with how the libvirt ESX
driver magic works. Can anybody shed any light?

Thanks,

Matt
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