Well I don't know if this helps, but it's there a reason you haven't tried running the command that succeeds on the laptop directly over SSH?
EG: ssh LAPTOPUSER@Laptop "virsh --connect qemu:///system start beaker-test-vm1.beaker" Ben S On Thu, Jul 28, 2022, 11:16 AM Carol Bouchard <cbouc...@redhat.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > >