[libvirt-users] Libvirt libssh2 authentication

[Claudio Bley]

At Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:25:24 +0100,
David Dias wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on a java application using libvirt java API (version 0.4.7)
> and i would like to authenticate through ssh within my application (no need
> for the user to type his password). How can i submit SSH authentication
> credentials to libvirt?
> 
> I am trying to get it working using libssh2 callback, but i get the error:
> "SSH transport error: no suitable method to retrieve authentication
> credentials" before anything happens. I have the same error running "virsh
> -c qemu+libssh2://username at host/system list" command.

There's already a bug report open, see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047861

I'd recommend you use a newer version of libvirt-java, though. Version
0.5.1 was released in Sep 2013.