Re: virtmanager not connecting to server

[Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>]

On 22/11/14 06:06 PM, Reco wrote:
>   Hi.
>
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:41:38 -0500
> Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> wrote:
>
> > I'm running Jessie/AMD64 connecting to Wheezy/ADM64. The KVM virtual
> > machines are on the Wheezy machine, which is a also file & print server
> > (CUPS, Samba & NFS).
> >
> > I'm getting an error "Unable to connect to libvirt. You need to install
> > openssh-askpass or similar to connect to this host."
> <skip>
> > libvirtError: Cannot recv data: ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass):
> > No such file or directory
> > Host key verification failed.: Connection reset by peer
> If you can connect to the garydale@TheLibrarian without the password it
> means that virt-manager is trying to be too smart (as you won't need
> ssh-askpass for the normal ssh connection). I suggest giving it what it
> wants:
>
> ln -s /bin/true /usr/bin/ssh-askpass
>
> Hacky, of course, and justifies a bug report, but should work.
>
>
> Reco

Changes the error:

Unable to connect to libvirt.

Cannot recv data: Host key verification failed.: Connection reset by peer

Verify that the 'libvirtd' daemon is running on the remote host.


Details:

ibvirt URI is: qemu+ssh://garydale@TheLibrarian/system

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1020, in _open_thread
    self._backend.open(self._do_creds_password)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/connection.py", line 158, in open
    open_flags)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 105, in openAuth
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
libvirtError: Cannot recv data: Host key verification failed.: Connection reset by peer