TY VM!!! virtproxyd was disabled and I can assure you I didn't disable it. /run/libvirt/libvirt-sock now exists AND the remote virsh actions were successful.
Background on my fedora36 install. I did not do an upgrade. This was a fresh install on a new laptop. I could see libvirt was running so I assumed it was intact. I had enabled/disabled libvirtd only because my remote virsh commands were not working. BTW I can't do the ssh approach as the scripts are used by other teams and I could break them. There had to be a better solution and use of proxy is an good one. Carol On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 4:43 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 01:18:00PM -0400, Carol Bouchard 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 is peculiar, it suggests that > > /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock > > does not exist, while /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro does exist. > > This ought to be an impossible situation in general. As Erik says, > In Fedora 36 we have the moduler daemons, so these two sockets are > provided by 'virtproxyd.socket' and 'virtproxyd-ro.socket' unit > files, so make sure both of those are running. > > With regards, > Daniel > -- > |: https://berrange.com -o- > https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| > |: https://libvirt.org -o- > https://fstop138.berrange.com :| > |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- > https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| > >