Run virt-manager on Windows 10
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@hobbit666 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
@DustinB3403 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
Ah, with virt-manager you need to add the location. It is a bit weird, but makes sense the first time you do it.
Where and how do I add this?
This is from my Fedora desktop, but works identically on Windows. You can do this for every machine that you want to manage as long as you have access via SSH. Set up keys and it's totally transparent. You can make it connect on demand, or automatically. Whatever works for you.
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Anyway, it is just File -> Add Connection
You put in the hostname and username and voila, connected.
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Do i just ignore that error ? It comes up when I run the
virt-manager &command on the Ubuntu windows. -
@hobbit666 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
Do i just ignore that error ? It comes up when I run the
virt-manager &command on the Ubuntu windows.Which error?
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I've not seen an error when running on Ubuntu, but I only have one I think. I'm mostly on Fedora. And the one Windows box I've been testing on. It's not me that would need it on Windows.
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@hobbit666 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
Having a few issues getting this running.
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So i've installed Xming.
Set the Display and Ran the program. -
Gone to the Windows Store and installed Ubuntu 18.04
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Ran Ubuntu and done and
ap-get update
Thenapt-get install virt-manager -
ran
virt-manager &
This is where i get the first problem.
I get the following message:-
Do i need to install or run anything else on the Windows Ubuntu instance?
@scottalanmiller this one
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@hobbit666 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
@hobbit666 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
Having a few issues getting this running.
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So i've installed Xming.
Set the Display and Ran the program. -
Gone to the Windows Store and installed Ubuntu 18.04
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Ran Ubuntu and done and
ap-get update
Thenapt-get install virt-manager -
ran
virt-manager &
This is where i get the first problem.
I get the following message:-
Do i need to install or run anything else on the Windows Ubuntu instance?
@scottalanmiller this one
Oh, that's because by default it is trying to connect to a local instance. If you don't have one, it's just confirming that. It's not an "error", just letting you know that it needs details for a remote instance before you can use it.
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You get that error on all systems, it's a standard virt-manager error. You get in on Fedora, Ubuntu Linux, Ubuntu Windows, etc.
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@scottalanmiller said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
Oh, that's because by default it is trying to connect to a local instance. If you don't have one, it's just confirming that. It's not an "error", just letting you know that it needs details for a remote instance before you can use it.
Ah ok will have to wait until Tuesday and try again. Not in Monday and I shut the machine off for the weekend
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@hobbit666 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
@scottalanmiller said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
Oh, that's because by default it is trying to connect to a local instance. If you don't have one, it's just confirming that. It's not an "error", just letting you know that it needs details for a remote instance before you can use it.
Ah ok will have to wait until Tuesday and try again. Not in Monday and I shut the machine off for the weekend
Do you have a remote system with libvirt running that has SSH accessibility? Something to test against?
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@scottalanmiller no my lab machine is the only KVM machine all the rest are Esxi
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@hobbit666 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
@scottalanmiller no my lab machine is the only KVM machine all the rest are Esxi
You can still use that from any Windows instance, even a VM on top of it, to see what a remote system would be like.
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before i'm back in tomorrow is there anything I need to do on the KVM (Fedora29) host I need to install/run/firewall to allow it to be managed externally by the windows machine?
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@hobbit666 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
before i'm back in tomorrow is there anything I need to do on the KVM (Fedora29) host I need to install/run/firewall to allow it to be managed externally by the windows machine?
You shouldn't. virt-manager operates on remote hosts via ssh.
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@hobbit666 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
before i'm back in tomorrow is there anything I need to do on the KVM (Fedora29) host I need to install/run/firewall to allow it to be managed externally by the windows machin
Port 22 and 5900. 22 for management, 5900 if you also want remote SPICE terminals.
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Trying to run virt-manager and Getting the following error:
root@DESKTOP-A911GSS:~# Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
(virt-manager:28): Gtk-WARNING **: 18:58:22.746: cannot open display:I've followed the steps and no luck.
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@brandon220 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:
Trying to run virt-manager and Getting the following error:
root@DESKTOP-A911GSS:~# Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
(virt-manager:28): Gtk-WARNING **: 18:58:22.746: cannot open display:I've followed the steps and no luck.
You have Xming running?
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OK so got a connection but got a few other problem.
First one was i got this.Unable to connect to libvirt.You need to install openssh-askpass or similar to connect to this host.Solved by running this
sudo virt-manager --no-forkOr a permanent solution was to run
sudo apt-get install ssh-askpass ssh-askpass-gnome -
My next issue/question
Once in Virt-Manager i can add my KVM host and connect. It asks for my users password twice? Should it?
Then once on (i've already got some VM's on there) when i click on a VM and open the console it asks for the password 5-6 times before displaying the console/desktop.
