virt-manager won't open remote console on kvm host

[Jason Brooks]

Binary package hint: virt-manager

I have a kvm server running fedora rawhide, and I'm trying to view the remote console of a vm hosted there from Karmic's virt-manager, through an ssh-tunneled connection. I can connect to the hypervisor, start, stop and otherwise manipulate the vms hosted there, but I can't view the remote console of my vms.

This works fine from virt-manager running on a separate jaunty system.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 16 10:44:36 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: virt-manager 0.7.0-3ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.47-generic
SourcePackage: virt-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Jason Brooks (jasonbrooks)]

I upgraded my home jaunty machine (the one that could connect to the remote kvm server in question here) to the virt-manager 0.8.0 with packages from a PPA -- I couldn't connect after the upgrade. However, with the latest code from the upstream project's repo, the connection works again. So it looks like this issue has been fixed upstream.

[zigi (ziegleka)]

I can confirm this bug. Karmic and Lucid are affected.

In Fedora 11, where is the virt-managager in version 0.7.0 too, the VNC connection is properly tunneled. Host system is CentOS 5.4.

[zigi (ziegleka)]

I think it should be marked as duplicate of this bug, where is mentioned the solution:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virt-manager/+bug/474107