[libvirt-users] Connecting to session instance without socket path is not supported by the ssh connection driver

[Theodotos Andreou]

On 30/06/2014 11:17 πμ, Theodotos Andreou wrote:
> On 25/06/2014 02:53 μμ, Laine Stump wrote:
>> On 06/25/2014 12:13 PM, Theodotos Andreou wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have setup some Virtualbox VMs under my normal user session. When I
>>> try to list the vbox machines locally I get:
>>>
>>> $ virsh -c vbox:///session list
>>>   Id    Name                           State
>>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>>   3     Ubuntu-MASS-controller         running
>>>
>>> When I try to list the machines from a remote location I get:
>>>
>>> $ virsh -c vbox+ssh://theodotos@10.0.2.2/session list
>>> setlocale: No such file or directory
>>> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
>>> error: Operation not supported: Connecting to session instance without
>>> socket path is not supported by the ssh connection driver
>> That pretty much explains it ^^^. Remote connections to session
>> (non-privileged) instances of libvirtd are not supported.
>>
>>> I have setup public key authentication between the remote machine and
>>> the VBox host.
>>>
>>> Any idea what am I doing wrong?
>> You'll either need to use system libvirtd, or do management locally
>> (that is, the libvirt client->server connection must be local; what goes
>> on on top of that is up to you).
>>
> Thanks for the Laine. I will reconfigure the VMs to be managed by the 
> system instead of user session.
>
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Thanks for info Laine. I will reconfigure the VMs to be managed by the 
system instead of user session.