Hi, I'm trying to work remotely on a server with F12, using vnc. When I start virt-manager, I do not get the authentication popup, and instead I get this message: Unable to open connection to hypervisor URI 'qemu:///system': authentication failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 872, in _try_open None], flags) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 102, in openAuth if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed') libvirtError: authentication failed

On Tuesday 23 March 2010 21:53:04 Cole Robinson wrote: > On 03/23/2010 12:12 PM, Doron Fediuck wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm trying to work remotely on a server with F12, using vnc. >> When I start virt-manager, I do not get the authentication popup, and instead I get this message: >> >> Unable to open connection to hypervisor URI 'qemu:///system': >> authentication failed >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 872, in _try_open >> None], flags) >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 102, in openAuth >> if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed') >> libvirtError: authentication failed >> > > Are you running virt-manager over VNC? There were problems like this in > the past, since VNC isn't a full desktop session, PolicyKit doesn't run. > > Other then that, not sure what could be wrong. > > - Cole > I wasn't aware of problems in VNC. So is there a work around ? How can I work remotely, if VM networking is local (ie- NAT) ?