I have a Fedora36 laptop which hosts VMs with RHEL7 using libvirt. One of the RHEL7 VMs, runs remote commands (as root) to 'start' another VM by way of my laptop. In other words, the following command is run: virsh --connect 'qemu+ssh://192.168.120.1/system' start beaker-test-vm1.beaker If I run non-remote version of the command on the laptop, it is successful. For example, virsh --connect qemu:///system start beaker-test-vm1.beaker <-- Successful on laptop.
If I do a query like the following *(notice socket use)*, it is successful. virsh -d0 --connect 'qemu+ssh://192.168.120.1/system?*socket*=/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro' domstate beaker-test-vm1.beaker Without socket, I get the following error: *error: failed to connect to the hypervisor* *error: End of file while reading data: Ncat: No such file or directory.: Input/output error* This does not work for 'start' because I believe this is a read-only socket since I see the error: error: Failed to start domain beaker-test-vm1.beaker error: operation forbidden: read only access prevents virDomainCreate When I look at my laptop, there is no /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock. So.....I've been wondering whether RHEL7 virsh/libvirt is compatible with Fedora36. Is there a work-around? I can't change the distros on my laptop or VMs. Carol