[libvirt-users] virsh + remote VirtualBox

[Michal Privoznik]

On 10/24/2017 03:40 PM, Konstantin Suvorov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have the following setup:
> 1. MacOS host with VirtualBox installed
> 2. Ubuntu 16.04 host with libvirt installed
> 
> What I try to do:
> Manage VMs executed inside VirtualBox on host 1 with libvirt tools from
> host 2.
> 
> I have vboxwebsrv up and running on my MacOS host.
> I can successfully manage VMs remotely (e.g. with phpvirtualbox).
> 
> But libvirt (virsh in particular) doesn't work.
> 
> Reading debug logs, manuals and numerous internet threads leads me to a
> conclusion, that libvirt does not support remote connection to VirtualBox
> directly and only via libvirtd daemon installed on the same remote host as
> VirtualBox. Is this correct?
> 
> If my assumption is correct, why is that so? Why libvirt can't manage
> remote VirtualBox directly?

Legal reasons. We had to make VirtualBox driver local only. We can't
ship libvirtd with VirtualBox enabled. Sorry. Maybe their license had
changed meanwhile, but I'm not sure about it.

Michal