Re: [libvirt-users] virt-manager and the alternatives

On 05/05/2016 03:58 PM, Narahari Lakshminarayana wrote: The display client in virt-manager has a "Send Key" menu that will send alt+Fn for you. Are you saying that you want virt-manager's window (with the list of virtual machines, etc) to be displayed on a different machine? You could do that by installing virt-manager (and the client side of libvirt) on the machine with the display, then running virt-manager and telling it to add a new connection to a remote host (that is an option in the New Connection dialog). Or you could do that by setting up X11 forwarding over ssh from the machine with the display (D) to the machine with KVM + libvirt + virt-manager (K). To forward X11, first login to K and make sure that /etc/ssh/sshd_config has the line "X11Forwarding yes" (you'll need to restart the sshd service if you change this), then from D run "ssh -X K" and run virt-manager at the shell prompt. It will be running on K but displayed on D. If you do this there will probably be authentication problems because it won't be able to find polkit; the way that I found of solving this was to create a new connection in virt-manager once it's open, telling it to connect to the "remote" host at address 127.0.0.1 (pay attention to what it asks for when authenticating - if you've never ssh'ed to localhost on that machine before, it may be asking you to type "yes" or "no" rather than asking for the password!). You could do that, once you know the address/port that qemu's vnc is listening on. Or you could use virt-viewer, which queries libvirt for the info, based on the name of the guest. To learn the address and port of the guest's VNC (or spice!) server, use "virsh domdisplay $guestname". It will give you a URI with all the necessary info, e.g.: spice://127.0.0.1:5908 (This guest is using spice for the display rather than VNC, and is listening on localhost port 5908).