Remote Virt-Manager Connection Errors

[Jon Irish]

I have ProxMox 5.2 running on a separate server than my iMac. I can ssh into from my iMac with no errors. I then installed Virt-Manager on it and set the connection parameters to:

Hypervisor: QEMU/KVM
Connect to remote host "checked"
Mehod: SSH
Username: username
Hostname: IP Address of ProxMox Server
Generated URI: qemu+ssh://root@192.168.X.X/system

When I click connect, I am prompted for the password which I enter, and then I get:

Unable to connect to libvirt qemu+ssh://root@192.168.X.X/system.

internal error: received hangup event on socket

Verify that the 'libvirtd' daemon is running on the remote host.

Libvirt URI is: qemu+ssh://root@192.168.X.X/system

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/Cellar/virt-manager/1.5.1/libexec/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1036, in _do_open
self._backend.open(self._do_creds_password)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/virt-manager/1.5.1/libexec/share/virt-manager/virtinst/connection.py", line 144, in open
open_flags)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/virt-manager/1.5.1/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 104, in openAuth
if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
libvirtError: internal error: received hangup event on socket

Any ideas why ssh connections work, but the virt-manger ssh connection does not?

Jon

 

[dcsapak]

proxmox does not use libvirt, so it wont work that way

 

[Jon Irish]

proxmox does not use libvirt, so it wont work that way

Thanks for the info dcsapak, I was afraid of that. Does ProxMox support SPICE?

 

[dcsapak]

yes, see the api :
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_API

you probably want to look at the api call:

/nodes/{nodename}/qemu/{vmid}/spiceproxy

also an interesting link: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/SPICE

 

[Jon Irish]

yes, see the api :
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_API

you probably want to look at the api call:

/nodes/{nodename}/qemu/{vmid}/spiceproxy

also an interesting link: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/SPICE

Thanks for the info... I actually found the last link just as your reply came in ;-) Gota say I am loving ProxMox so far. I wish I new about this a long time ago. On a different note, has there ever been talk of offering special subscription pricing to individual users that use ProxMox to build labs for educational purposes? I don't mean schools, but individuals that do this to better themselves for their daily jobs?

 

[dcsapak]

On a different note, has there ever been talk of offering special subscription pricing to individual users that use ProxMox to build labs for educational purposes? I don't mean schools, but individuals that do this to better themselves for their daily jobs?

if the community subscription is too expensive, just use it without a subscription, proxmox ve is agpl and is not feature restricted without a subscription

 

[Jon Irish]

if the community subscription is too expensive, just use it without a subscription, proxmox ve is agpl and is not feature restricted without a subscription

Thanks!