[virt-tools-list] what is virt-viewer intended to be ?

[Pavel Grunt]

On Thu, 2017-05-11 at 15:03 +0200, Lentes, Bernd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry for asking a simple question, but i'm confused. What is virt-
> viewer intended to be ?
> To connect directly to virtual machine consoles, e.g. with VNC ?
and SPICE

> Or connect to libvirtd which runs e.g. on a remote linux host ?
> Or both ?
can do both - to connect to vm, it first has to connect to libvirt
There is also remote-viewer which allows you to connect directly to
the vm

> 
> If i'm able to connect to libvirtd on a remote host, what can i do ?
> I think the functionality of virt-viewer is limited compared to
> virt-manager.
compared to virt-manager it has multimonitor support, folder sharing,
it shows progress bar with file transfer (SPICE features). 
remote-viewer also works on Windows.


> This page (https://libvirt.org/windows.html) gaves me the impression
> that i can connect with virt-viewer to a libvirtd on a remote host.
> 
> I tried to connect to a libvirtd on a linux host host using virt-
> viewer and the following in the adress bar:
> qemu+tcp://192.168.100.10 and qemu+tcp://192.168.100.1016509, but
> didn't succeed.

please see the man page, it has a few examples:
 virt-viewer -c qemu+ssh://root@host/system

> The port 16509 on the linux host is opened in the firewall and
> libvirtd is listening on it.
> 
> Is virt-viewer able to do this ?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Bernd
>