[ovirt-users] Importing disk images with import-to-ovirt.pl = Authentication Error

[Nir Soffer]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Adrian Garay <
adrian.garay at thaultanklines.com> wrote:

> We have an existing setup consisting of virt-manager/libvirt/KVM
> hypervisors that we're planning to migrate to Ovirt.  Given that all of our
> guests are existing KVM/virtio images, it does not make sense for us to
> virt-v2v them over because of the ensuing registry/kernel/etc. changes that
> may be unnecessarily applied.
>
> One solution to this is the import-to-ovirt.pl script created by Redhat's
> maintainer of virt-v2v.
> <https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/importing-kvm-guests-to-ovirt-or-rhev/>
> https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/importing-kvm-guests-to-ovirt-or-rhev/
> Running this script on a host against a disk image will import the image to
> exported storage and mate it to a basic configuration so it can be imported
> easily afterward, or at least it should.
>
> Our current test set up consists of hosted engine Ovirt 3.5.4 on Centos
> 7.1.  When attempting to import an image using this script on the host we
> get the following errors:
>
> 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.
> We've tried the root, ovirt and the admin at internal credentials and none
> of them work.   Is there a default login/password to access libvirt on an
> Ovirt host?
>

Yes:

username: vdsm at ovirt
password: shibboleth

Nir

Our system works as it should otherwise.
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone that can shed light here.
>
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