libvirt users - Oct 2014 - Using virsh on OSX to control a VMs on a linux machine

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Hi everyone,

maybe this is a stupid thing, but Google found no answer. So, for the
next one trying this:

I have a linux server, that runs a couple of VMs, and on which libvirt
and virsh work like a charm. From time to time I'm on a Mac OSX
machine, where I can install libvirt from macports very comfortably.
But this far I have not gotten it to work with anything apart from the
virtualbox that is installed on osx.

I always get a hangup error, that is not listed on
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Failed_to_connect_to_the_hypervisor:
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor error: internal error:
> received hangup / error event on socket
So I had to enter the path to the socket (on the linux machine), as
the OSX libvirt thinks it is in /opt/local/..., where the whole
macports stuff is. On linux it's in /var/run/libvirt/.

So, the following works:
> virsh -c
> qemu+ssh://example.org/system?socket=/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock
> list --all
Regards,
Johannes
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Underground.´
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