libvirt users - Aug 2013 - Libvirt not getting connected to ESX server

Hi,

I was trying to connect to ESX server using libvirt's virsh console but I
am getting the following error:

*virsh# connect esx://172.16.73.14*
*Enter username for 172.16.73.14 [root]: root*
*Enter root's password for 172.16.73.14:*
*error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor*
*error: internal error curl_easy_perform() returned an error: Peer
certificate cannot be authenticated with known CA certificates (60) : SSL
certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:*
*error: 14090086:SSL routine:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify
failed.*
*
*
Can anyone please help me out with this one and tell me how to resolve this
error?

Regards,
Varun

2013/8/1 varun bhatnagar <varun292006@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to connect to ESX server using libvirt's virsh console but
I am
> getting the following error:
>
> virsh# connect esx://172.16.73.14
> Enter username for 172.16.73.14 [root]: root
> Enter root's password for 172.16.73.14:
> error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor
> error: internal error curl_easy_perform() returned an error: Peer
> certificate cannot be authenticated with known CA certificates (60) : SSL
> certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:
> error: 14090086:SSL routine:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify
> failed.
>
> Can anyone please help me out with this one and tell me how to resolve this
> error?
See http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html#certificates

By default an ESX server uses self-signed SSL certificates. You either
need to tell libvirt to not verify the certificates (virsh connect
esx://172.16.73.14/?no_verify=1) or replace the SSL certificates with
offically signed ones.

-- 
Matthias Bolte
http://photron.blogspot.com

Thanks a ton for the reply Matthias. I tried your suggestion but now I got
one more message saying:

*virsh # connect esx://172.16.73.14/?no_verify=1*
*Enter username for 172.16.73.14 [root]: root*
*Enter root's password for 172.16.73.14: *
*error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor*
*error: internal error: curl_easy_perform() returned an error: Unsupported
protocol (1) : Protocol https not supported or disabled in libcurl*

Is it because of the curl package? I thought of building curl with https
support but there was no such option (--with-https). Can you please tell me
why am I getting this.

Regards,
Varun


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Matthias Bolte <
matthias.bolte@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2013/8/1 varun bhatnagar <varun292006@gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was trying to connect to ESX server using libvirt's virsh
console but
> I am
> > getting the following error:
> >
> > virsh# connect esx://172.16.73.14
> > Enter username for 172.16.73.14 [root]: root
> > Enter root's password for 172.16.73.14:
> > error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor
> > error: internal error curl_easy_perform() returned an error: Peer
> > certificate cannot be authenticated with known CA certificates (60) :
SSL
> > certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:
> > error: 14090086:SSL routine:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate
> verify
> > failed.
> >
> > Can anyone please help me out with this one and tell me how to resolve
> this
> > error?
>
> See http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html#certificates
>
> By default an ESX server uses self-signed SSL certificates. You either
> need to tell libvirt to not verify the certificates (virsh connect
> esx://172.16.73.14/?no_verify=1) or replace the SSL certificates with
> offically signed ones.
>
> --
> Matthias Bolte
> http://photron.blogspot.com
>