<div dir="ltr"><br><div>You should either get a connection to the console of a running instance, or get a message saying "waiting for guest domain to start".<br><br>If you get "cannot find guest domain x", then that VM is not defined.<br>
<br>If you get the "Unable to connect to libvirt", this means that the current user on the local machine cannot login via ssh to the remote host.<br><br>Are you running KVM on a remote host or you local machine?<br>
<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:18 PM, CrankyOldBugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">No, sorry, still won't work. I tried it from the server command line, ssh to the server from an Ubuntu desktop, even from within a terminal in Ubuntu desktop.<div>
<br></div><div>The last option, which was run from a GUI, gave the error "Unable to connect to libvirt with URI qemu+ssh//<a href="http://10.42.1.80/system" target="_blank">10.42.1.80/system</a>" . The CLI versions all complained that they "Cannot open display".</div>
<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 18 August 2014 15:56, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:44 PM, CrankyOldBugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote: <br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Now this is where I am stuck. Virt-manager is pretty much useless (you run it and it just goes away) and virt-viewer is crying about not being able to find the Display (I am running Ubuntu Server, which is CLI only. Is that the problem?)</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Try explicitly specifying the connection.<br><br></div><div>If KVM/libvirt are running on the local machine do:<br><br>$ virt-viewer -c qemu:///system europa<br><br>If KVM/libvirt are running on a remote machine do:<br>
<br>$ virt-viewer -c qemu+ssh://server_name/system europa<br></div><div>(Assuming that you have ssh access to the remote machine called server_name).<br></div><div><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div> I'm still trying to get past this issue and actually see the VM. I'll let you know how that goes. If I knew europa's IP or something that I could connect to...</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>
One of the above should get you a console, and from there you can login, then do ifconfig to know what IP address it uses.<span><font color="#888888"><br><br> </font></span></div></div><span><font color="#888888">-- <br>
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