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

[Theodotos Andreou]

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.