i have openmedia vault installed on my pc. working great. i installed kvm host on this machine so i can use it a s a virtual machine host server. following this guide:
[HowTo] Run OMV as a KVM/qemu/libvirt host
but i cant connect to it via virtual machine manager from they root console on my OMV box or from anywhere for that matter...
root@openmediavault:~# virsh -c qemu+ssh://dogbert@localhost/system
root@localhost's password:
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: End of file while reading data: Input/output error
i have searched high and low with regard to why this isnt working. the best guess i have is the users arent in the right group. But i added them as per the instructions detailed in above url and verified they are there.
Some background info:
root@openmediavault:~# virsh -c qemu:///system list
Id Name State
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root@openmediavault:~# uname -a
Linux openmediavault 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4 (2016-02-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux
user@openmediavault:~# dpkg -l | grep libvirt
ii gir1.2-libvirt-glib-1.0 0.1.9-4 amd64 libvirt glib mainloop integration
ii libvirt-bin 1.2.9-9+deb8u1 amd64 programs for the libvirt library
ii libvirt-clients 1.2.9-9+deb8u1 amd64 programs for the libvirt library
ii libvirt-daemon 1.2.9-9+deb8u1 amd64 programs for the libvirt library
ii libvirt-daemon-system 1.2.9-9+deb8u1 amd64 Libvirt daemon configuration files
ii libvirt-glib-1.0-0 0.1.9-4 amd64 libvirt glib mainloop integration
ii libvirt0 1.2.9-9+deb8u1 amd64 library for interfacing with different virtualization systems
ii python-libvirt 1.2.9-1 amd64 libvirt Python bindings
root@openmediavault:/# /etc/init.d/libvirtd status
● libvirtd.service - Virtualization daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2016-03-25 12:33:33 PDT; 12min ago
Docs: man:libvirtd(8)
http://libvirt.org
Main PID: 3394 (libvirtd)
CGroup: /system.slice/libvirtd.service
└─3394 /usr/sbin/libvirtd