KVM/QEMU remote connection

[poma]

On 15.01.2015 19:49, Glenn Holmer wrote:
> On 12/31/2014 03:40 PM, Flavio Leitner wrote:
>> On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 03:21:46 PM Glenn Holmer wrote:
>>> On 12/31/2014 02:33 PM, Flavio Leitner wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 02:11:38 PM Glenn Holmer wrote:
>>>>> I'm trying to connect to another machine using virt-manager (File/Add
>>>>> Connection). I select QEMU/KVM as hypervisor, "connect to remote host",
>>>>> method SSH, and a username and hostname on the remote machine. The
>>>>> result is always that I get prompted for my passphrase, but then see
>>>>> "authentication failed: no agent is available to authenticate". I get
>>>>> this going from either machine to the other.
>>>>>
>>>>> Virtualization is set up OK because I can run virtual machines on both
>>>>> VM hosts. SSH is set up OK, I can ssh with public key in both directions
>>>>> both as myself and as root. I tried "setenforce 0" on both machines to
>>>>> see if SELinux was blocking it, but the result was the same.
>>>>>
>>>>> What am I missing?
>>>>
>>>> Do you see the process ssh-agent running?
>>>
>>> I see this on both machines:
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/sh -c exec -l /bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/startkde"
>>>
>>
>> Right, do you see your identity there?
>> $ ssh-add -l 
>>
>> If so, is there any chance of you are running the virt-manager out of the
>> established session?  I'd start the virt-manager on the same shell running
>> the ssh-add above to confirm.
> 
> I finally got some more time to work on this. At first, it seemed like a
> KDE thing, as "ssh-add -l" didn't show anything when I first logged in.
> So I added ssh-add to the list of startup programs, and now the KDE
> version of ssh-askpass prompts me for a password when I log in, and I
> can ssh to the remote machine without entering a passphrase for the key.
> But I still get the same error when I try to create a new KVM
> connection! Anybody have any other ideas?
> 

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