protocol method available on Windows

[john doe]

On 3/26/2020 4:00 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 06:03:47PM +0100, john doe wrote:
>> Hi libvirts,
>>
>> I'm playing with libvirt on Windows (downloaded the x64 msi) but I'm
>> stuck at the following:
>>
>> virsh # net-edit default
>> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
>> error: invalid argument: transport methods unix, ssh and ext are not
>> supported under Windows
>
> Libvirt has two sorts of drivers - stateless ones and stateful ones.
> The stateful ones require use of the libvirtd daemon and are not
> supported (nor even built) on Windows.
>
> The Windows builds can most usefully act as a remote RPC client to
> connect to Linux hypervisor hosts.
>
> For this, you'll want to use the TLS transport eg
>
>    virsh -c qemu+tls://some.linux.kvm.host/system
>
> and you'll need to setup TLS certificates on client & host too.
>

Now I understand why it was not working! :)

Many thanks for your answer.

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John Doe