[libvirt-users] problem connecting to libvirtd remotely; compiled from sources

[Michal Privoznik]

On 02.11.2015 11:56, Andrei Perietanu wrote:
> I am trying to add libvirt to a linux machine running a custom built linux-
> there is no packet manager, everything is compiled using buildroot.
> 
> On this VM server, I am running libvirt-1.2.2 and the linux kernel is
> 3.18.21
> 
> Libvirtd starts and runs in the background. I can add/edit VMs using
> Virt-install.
> If I try to connect to the local qemu, everything works: virsh -c
> qemu:///system
> If I ssh in from the remote machine, as root,  and run virsh, everything
> seems to work
> 
> But if I try to connect using virt-manager, or *virsh -c
> qemu+ssh://root@<server_ip>/system* I get an error:
> 
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
> error: Cannot recv data: ssh: connect to host 10.10.200.85 port 22:
> Connection refused: Connection reset by peer
> 

Does the regular ssh work?
When it comes to ssh transport, libvirt uses netcat to tunnel its RPC
packets through, so maybe you are missing the nc binary on one side. You
may want to switch to libssh which drops the dependency.

Michal