Anno domini 2009 Dave Bryson scripsit: Hi!

I need to be able to access libvirt remotely. Reading through the documention is says "libvirtd should be running on the remote machine" for clarification does this mean that libvirtd needs to run *on* the remote hypervisor?

In case of hypervisors which do not (fully) support remote management, yes. This is the case for Xen for example. I guess things like qemu, KVM, VBox and the like are similar. ESX for example can be managed completely over the network via a SOAP API so there is no need for a libvirtd on the hypervisor side. HTH Ciao Max -- If it doesn't work, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.