KVM/QEMU remote connection [SOLVED]

[Pete Travis]

On Jan 15, 2015 7:12 PM, "Glenn Holmer" <shadowm at lyonlabs.org> wrote:
>
> On 01/15/2015 07:26 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
> >
> > On Jan 15, 2015 11:49 AM, "Glenn Holmer" <shadowm at lyonlabs.org
> > <mailto:shadowm at lyonlabs.org>> 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?
>
> > If you are using a regular user, do something like this on the host:
> >
> >
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/docs/cookbook/#access-to-libvirt-without-root-privileges
>
> Thanks, that solved it.
>
> --
> Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682)
> "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."
> --
>

Great, glad I could help.

BTW, the Cookbook is WIP and not formally published because there isn't a
lot of content yet.  Contributions welcome :)

--Pete
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