[Spice-devel] Flatpaking virt-viewer/remote-viewer

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:27:32PM -0400, Adrian Lucrèce Céleste wrote:
> I've hit a bit of a snag with virt-viewer. I've got it compiled, running,
> but whenever I try to connect to a remote instance, I always get this:
> 
> 
> [alc at xps org.virt_manager.virt-viewer]$ flatpak run
> org.virt_manager.virt-viewer --debug -c
> qemu+ssh://upsquared@192.168.10.192/system
> (virt-viewer:2): virt-viewer-DEBUG: 22:21:30.782: connecting ...
> (virt-viewer:2): virt-viewer-DEBUG: 22:21:30.783: Opening connection to
> libvirt with URI qemu+ssh://upsquared@192.168.10.192/system
> Enter passphrase for key '/home/alc/.ssh/id_rsa':
> (virt-viewer:2): virt-viewer-DEBUG: 22:21:38.758: Error: End of file while
> reading data: Ncat: No such file or directory.: Input/output error
> 
> Connecting to that URI via virt-manager on the same machine just works. I
> just don't know what I'm doing wrong.
> 
> 
> Here is my current flatpak manifest:
> 
> https://github.com/AdrianKoshka/flathub/blob/org.virt_manager.virt-viewer/org.virt_manger.virt-viewer.json

You are not settig the paths for building libvirt, so it will default
to /usr/local, but all the versions built by distros will use
--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var.

Thus it will be trying to run netcat with the wrong socket path
eg /usr/local/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock, instead of
/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock

BTW, the mailing list for virt-viewer is actually the virt-tools-list

   https://virt-manager.org/communicate/

Regards,
Daniel
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