Can RHEL7 VM run remote commands to Fedora36 host?

Carol Bouchard cbouchar at redhat.com
Mon Aug 1 11:42:51 UTC 2022


These services do not exist

[cbouchar at ibm-p8-rhevm-17-fsp cbouchar-devel]$ systemctl status
virtxend.service
Unit virtxend.service could not be found.
[cbouchar at ibm-p8-rhevm-17-fsp cbouchar-devel]$ systemctl status
virtxcd.service
Unit virtxcd.service could not be found.

On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 7:18 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 08:19:04AM -0400, Carol Bouchard wrote:
> > The only reason I toggled libvirtd was because the remote virsh commands
> > failed and
> > I could see the socket didn't exist.  That suggests to me that virtproxyd
> > wasn't up AND
> > it was configured at disabled.
>
> Note, that it is important to distinguish the service from the sockets.
>
> In Fedora 36, not only are we using modular daemons by default, but we
> also use socket activation.  In a fresh install, you should only see
> the following services enabled
>
>  virtqemud.service
>  virtxend.service
>  virtlxcd.service
>
> Those are needed becuase of requiremenmt todo VM auto-start on host
> bootup.
>
> For everything else we only expect sockets enabled:
>
>  virtproxyd.socket
>  virtinterfaced.socket
>  virtnetworkd.socket
>  virtnodedevd.socket
>  virtnwfilterd.socket
>  virtsecretd.socket
>  virtstoraged.socket
>
>
> IOW,  virtproxyd.service should not be enabled - it is autostarted
> when someone connects to virtproxyd.socket.
>
> And nothing related to libvirtd.service or libvirtd.socket should
> be enabled
>
> With regards,
> Daniel
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