[libvirt] virsh + ssh

[Daniel Huhardeaux]

Eric sorry for private mail, I tought libvirt-list was the "To".

Le 04/01/2011 18:13, Daniel Huhardeaux a écrit :
> Hi all
>
> Le 03/01/2011 22:32, Eric Blake a écrit :
>> On 01/01/2011 03:38 AM, Daniel Huhardeaux wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> connecting to a remote server using qemu+ssh is always done with root
>>> user. The problem we face is that we don't allow root connection for 
>>> ssh.
>>
>> I haven't tried, but it seems to me like you should be able to do
>> qemu+ssh://user@remote/system in order to connect as user instead of 
>> root.
>
> Following Justins link -which says the same that you- it works.
>
> My problem was that I wanted to do it with virt-manager which only 
> connect using URI qemu+ssh://root@remote/system :-(
>
> I face a strange behavior: I added my user in libvirt group and modify 
> libvirtd.conf to start with group libvirt. I restart libvirt-bin and:
>
> virsh -c qemu+ssh:///system
> dh at localhost's password:
> Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.
>
> Type:  'help' for help with commands
>        'quit' to quit
>
> virsh # list
>  Id Name                 State
> ----------------------------------
>   1 XPHome               running
>
> virsh #
>
> Now without connecting through ssh:
>
> virsh
> Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.
>
> Type:  'help' for help with commands
>        'quit' to quit
>
> virsh # list
>  Id Name                 State
> ----------------------------------
>
> virsh #
>
> So using virsh I don't see VM's! If I do 'sudo virsh' it's OK. What is 
> wrong in my setup?
>
> Thanks for your help

I got it: when you connect as an user with virsh it does't automatically 
connect to local system as it does as root user: virsh -c qemu:///system 
is the right command.

Thanks for your time.

PS: if someone knows how to connect virt-manager with ssh as a normal 
user, would appreciate to share :-)
-- 
Daniel