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

[Adrian Lucrèce Céleste]

Thanks for pointing out the prefix thing with libvirt, and pointing me 
to the correct mailing-list.


On 05/16/2018 05:01 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> 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