On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:08:48AM -0500, Adrian Garay wrote:
|libvirt needs authentication to connect to libvirt URI qemu:///system ||libvirt: XML-RPC error : authentication failed: authentication failed ||could not connect to libvirt (URI = qemu:///system): authentication failed: authentication failed at ./import-to-ovirt.pl line 230. | I understand that diagnosing this script is well outside of the context of this mailing list, but this is clearly just an authentication problem.
For the mailing list record, Adrian's solution was to set export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct which causes libguestfs to run qemu directly instead of trying to use libvirt. Thanks, Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/