[libvirt-users] Connecting to session instance without socket path is not supported by the ssh connection driver

[Laine Stump]

On 06/25/2014 12:13 PM, Theodotos Andreou wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have setup some Virtualbox VMs under my normal user session. When I
> try to list the vbox machines locally I get:
>
> $ virsh -c vbox:///session list
>  Id    Name                           State
> ----------------------------------------------------
>  3     Ubuntu-MASS-controller         running
>
> When I try to list the machines from a remote location I get:
>
> $ virsh -c vbox+ssh://theodotos@10.0.2.2/session list
> setlocale: No such file or directory
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
> error: Operation not supported: Connecting to session instance without
> socket path is not supported by the ssh connection driver

That pretty much explains it ^^^. Remote connections to session
(non-privileged) instances of libvirtd are not supported.

>
> I have setup public key authentication between the remote machine and
> the VBox host.
>
> Any idea what am I doing wrong?

You'll either need to use system libvirtd, or do management locally
(that is, the libvirt client->server connection must be local; what goes
on on top of that is up to you).