[Users] Access libvirt/virsh on oVirt node

Antoni Segura Puimedon asegurap at redhat.com
Thu Feb 7 14:33:04 UTC 2013


Replied inline.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Wall" <fwall at inotronic.de>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 3:25:41 PM
> Subject: [Users] Access libvirt/virsh on oVirt node
> 
> Hi,
> 
> how can I access libvirt/virsh on oVirt node? What are the
> credentials
> for accessing libvirt/virsh on the command line of a oVirt node?

You can always set your own credentials for libvirt (without touching those
of vdsm/oVirt):

saslpasswd2 -a libvirt foo

where foo is the new username.
> 
> virsh # list
> Please enter your authentication name:
> Please enter your password:
> error: Failed to reconnect to the hypervisor
> error: no valid connection
> error: authentication failed: Failed to step SASL negotiation: -1
> (SASL(-1): generic failure: All-whitespace username.)
> 
> 
> It would make debugging things much easier...
> 
> 
> Thanks
> - Frank
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