[libvirt-users] virt-manager / ssh (publickey)

Trey Dockendorf treydock at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 03:35:18 UTC 2011


Whats the connection string your using?

Also Id recommend not using root and giving a normal user account full
libvirt control via policykit.  I have an example here,
http://itscblog.tamu.edu/startup-guide-for-kvm-on-centos-6/ .

- Trey
On Nov 28, 2011 1:34 PM, "Shaun Glass" <shaunglass at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good day All,
>
> I have experienced the following ...
>
> I have a rhel 6.1 server running qemu-kvm. I have setup my desktop for
> a publickey login (root user) to said server so that I may manage the
> server (qemu-kvm) via the desktop with virt-manager.
>
> However, I connect just fine, but cannot create vm's. I get :
>
> "No hypervisor options where found for this connection"
>
> My laptop does run qemu-kvm via virt-manager and so I decided to setup
> a publickey login as before and guess what ... I can create vm's. It
> seems virt-manager bases the creation of vm's based on the hardware /
> software of the machine it is launched from and not the machine it is
> connecting to.
>
> Is there a workaround / config change etc that can be done so that
> virt-manager uses the hardware / software configuration of the system
> it is connecting to ?
>
> Regards
>
> Shaun Glass
>
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