On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Ananth <cbananth(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to connect to libvirt on KVM host from a remote python client, > using the connection string "qemu+ssh://<IP Address>/system" > If I setup password less SSH (Public key) between the machines, I am able to > proceed with the connection. But If I have not setup the public key > authentication, my code hangs trying to connect to libvirt, and there is a > prompt for entering password in the shell where the code is running. > > Is there any way to catch this in an exception and throw an error that > public key not setup or password not available? Or is it possible to timeout > and abort the request to connect to the host? Whatever timeout variables > available online seem to work only for an already active SSH session to > timeout. > > Any pointers ? > You'll want to append ?no_tty=1 to the end of your URI that you pass to open() or openReadOnly(). For more info see the docs here: http://libvirt.org/remote.html#Remote_URI_parameters -- Doug Goldstein