[virt-tools-list] Strange behaviour using qemu+ssh on virt-manager

[Leonardo Augusto Guimarães Garcia]

On 09/17/2013 02:38 PM, Fernando Lozano wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am experimenting with different security settings for libvirtd, so I 
> can give sysadmins administrative access to the KVM hypervisor without 
> giving them root access on the host. I had success using TLS (with 
> client-certs) and SASL, but have not managed to make polkit and ssh to 
> work so far.
>
> If I change /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf auth_tcp or auth_unix_rw  a 
> local virsh connection gets this error:
>
> "Authorization requires authentication but no agent is available"
>
> Thus  I'm using "sasl" for tcp and "none" for the unix socket.
>
> When I try a "qemu+ssh" remote virsh connection evething works fine. 
> But then I try the same URL using virt-manager, and then try to open a 
> guest console, virt-manager prompts multiple times for a ssh login 
> password.
>
> Shoudn't virt-manager resue the same ssh connection for guest console 
> access? And even if it needs to open a new ssh connection for the 
> spice connection, this should require only one additional ssh login.
>
> But I tried many times, carefully typing the password each time, and 
> I'm sure they were not typos: virt-manager is actually asking for the 
> ssh login password many times!
>
> Maybe people who use ssh keys (passwordless) logins didn't notice, but 
> I think virt-manager should't require more than one addtional ssh 
> connection per guest console. Is this a bug?
I had the same experience using virt-manager for Fedora 19.

My workaround was to change .ssh/config file to include the following:

Host *
         ControlMaster auto
         ControlPath ~/.ssh/master-%r@%h:%p

Not a fix for what I agree that seems to be a bug, but at least turned 
the experience feasible.

Best regards,

Leonardo Garcia
>
>
> []s, Fernando Lozano
>
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