[libvirt] unable to connect to a ESX via ssh
Hi *, Apologies for cross posting. I have installed the the libvirt and virt-toolss in an ubuntu karmic 9.10. I am trying to access-manage an ESX 3.5i via ssh protocol. Although I have configured and verified that ssh access operates correctly with keys, when I try to access the ESX via virt-manager, it doesn't work. Cheers, Dimitris -------------- Dimitrios K. Kalogeras Electrical Engineer Ph.D. Network Engineer NTUA/GR-Net Network Management Center _____________________________________ skype: aweboy voice: +30-210-772 1863 fax: +30-210-772 1866
2010/3/8 Dimitris Kalogeras <D.Kalogeras@noc.ntua.gr>:
Hi *,
Apologies for cross posting. I have installed the the libvirt and virt-toolss in an ubuntu karmic 9.10. I am trying to access-manage an ESX 3.5i via ssh protocol. Although I have configured and verified that ssh access operates correctly with keys, when I try to access the ESX via virt-manager, it doesn't work.
Cheers, Dimitris
You're the second one that asks this question in the last few days. Maybe I should take this as an indication that I need to improve the ESX driver documentation. The remote mechanisms of libvirt aren't used for the ESX driver. So don't use esx+ssh://example.com, just use esx://example.com. The ESX driver communicates the the ESX server using HTTPS. You'll probably see an error message about failed certificate verification. That one comes from the fact the normally your client PC won't have the certificates that VMware uses to sign the SSL certificates for HTTPS. You can disable certificate verification by adding no_verify=1 to the connection URI: esx://example.com/?no_verify=1 Also make sure that your libvirt version has ESX support compiled in. Debian for example ships libvirt packages without ESX support. Also see http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html if you haven't yet. Matthias
Hi Matthias, On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 08:28:07PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote:
2010/3/8 Dimitris Kalogeras <D.Kalogeras@noc.ntua.gr>:
Hi *,
Apologies for cross posting. I have installed the the libvirt and virt-toolss in an ubuntu karmic 9.10. I am trying to access-manage an ESX 3.5i via ssh protocol. Although I have configured and verified that ssh access operates correctly with keys, when I try to access the ESX via virt-manager, it doesn't work.
Cheers, Dimitris
You're the second one that asks this question in the last few days. Maybe I should take this as an indication that I need to improve the ESX driver documentation. We don't have the ESX driver enabled in Debian at the moment:
configure: Xen: yes configure: Proxy: no configure: QEMU: yes configure: UML: yes configure: OpenVZ: yes configure: VBox: yes configure: LXC: yes configure: PHYP: no configure: ONE: no configure: ESX: no configure: Test: yes configure: Remote: yes configure: Network: yes configure: Libvirtd: yes configure: netcf: no configure: macvtap: no Since Ubuntu basically uses the Debian packges they don't have this enabled either. The current diff against Debian is at: http://patches.ubuntu.com/libv/libvirt/libvirt_0.7.5-5ubuntu12.patch which hasn't any ./configure changes except for apparmor support so I doubt this can work at all on Ubuntu. Dimitris, you should file an Ubuntu Bug. Matthias, I'd be more than happy to enable ESX support in Debian but I don't have any means of testing it. Cheers, -- Guido
2010/3/9 Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>:
Hi Matthias, On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 08:28:07PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote:
2010/3/8 Dimitris Kalogeras <D.Kalogeras@noc.ntua.gr>:
Hi *,
Apologies for cross posting. I have installed the the libvirt and virt-toolss in an ubuntu karmic 9.10. I am trying to access-manage an ESX 3.5i via ssh protocol. Although I have configured and verified that ssh access operates correctly with keys, when I try to access the ESX via virt-manager, it doesn't work.
Cheers, Dimitris
You're the second one that asks this question in the last few days. Maybe I should take this as an indication that I need to improve the ESX driver documentation. We don't have the ESX driver enabled in Debian at the moment:
configure: Xen: yes configure: Proxy: no configure: QEMU: yes configure: UML: yes configure: OpenVZ: yes configure: VBox: yes configure: LXC: yes configure: PHYP: no configure: ONE: no configure: ESX: no configure: Test: yes configure: Remote: yes configure: Network: yes configure: Libvirtd: yes configure: netcf: no configure: macvtap: no
Since Ubuntu basically uses the Debian packges they don't have this enabled either. The current diff against Debian is at:
http://patches.ubuntu.com/libv/libvirt/libvirt_0.7.5-5ubuntu12.patch
which hasn't any ./configure changes except for apparmor support so I doubt this can work at all on Ubuntu.
Dimitris, you should file an Ubuntu Bug. Matthias, I'd be more than happy to enable ESX support in Debian but I don't have any means of testing it. Cheers, -- Guido
Ah, I see. You could use the 60 days evaluation version of ESXi 4.0 for testing. A small hurdle is that you need supported hardware, at leasts a supported NIC. Once in a while, when I can't use my ESX servers in the university's cluster, I use an ESXi installed on an USB flash drive with my notebook that has a supported Intel NIC. Storage is provided via NFS then. Matthias
participants (3)
-
Dimitris Kalogeras -
Guido Günther -
Matthias Bolte