[libvirt-users] [Libvirt ] qemu+tls failed to verify peer's certificate

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 05:39:17PM +0530, Dhaval_Shah1 at dell.com wrote:
> Dell Customer Communication
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am trying to do a virsh using TLS Certificate. I am getting an error that "error: authentication failed: Failed to verify peer's certificate"
> I am following the steps mentioned in the http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/TLSSetup
> I have generated CA Certificate, client certificate and server certificate and placed them as mentioned in above site.
> After that when I am trying to do a virsh it is failing. Please let me know if anyone has encountered this kind of issue.
> 
> virsh -c qemu+tls://172.14.5.6/system list
> error: failed to connect to hypervisor
> error: authentication failed: Failed to verify peer's certificate

Did you use the IP address when creating the certificate, or the
domain name ?  You are using the IP address in the URI here, so
that must match what you used in the certificate. I'm guessing you
used a hostname in the cert based on that error.

Regards,
Daniel
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