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

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).