[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#614291: Bug#614291: Unable to establish qemu+ssh connection

[Guido Günther]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 09:52:11PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Package: virt-manager
> Version: 0.8.6-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have successfully used virt-manager to conntect a libvirt managed KVM
> server via SSH in the past.
> 
> I'm not sure anymore which upgrade caused the failure, but for the
> previously working qemu+ssh://root@host connection I now get the
> following error message:
> 
> Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon.
> 
> Libvirt URI is: qemu+ssh://root@foo/system
> 
> Verify that:
>  - The 'libvirtd' daemon has been started
> 
> server closed connection: nc: invalid option -- 'U'
> nc -h for help
> 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1022, in _try_open
>     None], flags)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 107, in openAuth
>     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
> libvirtError: server closed connection: nc: invalid option -- 'U'
> nc -h for help
> 
> 
> 
> The client system is Debian unstable, the KVM server runs an up-to-date
> Debian squeeze.
You're using netcat-openbsd? 
 -- Guido