I’m running KVM on a bare bone Fedora server and manage the KVMs via Virtual Machine Manger from a Fedora 37 Workstation.
This worked all along but after restarting my laptop and package updates VMM doesn’t connect any longer. I get the following error message. How can I fix this issue?
Unable to connect to libvirt qemu+ssh://root@192.168.2.100/system.
Configure SSH key access for the remote host, or install an SSH askpass package locally.
Libvirt URI is: qemu+ssh://root@192.168.2.100/system
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py”, line 923, in _do_open
self._backend.open(cb, data)
File “/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/connection.py”, line 171, in open
conn = libvirt.openAuth(self._open_uri,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File “/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/libvirt.py”, line 147, in openAuth
raise libvirtError(‘virConnectOpenAuth() failed’)
libvirt.libvirtError: Cannot recv data: ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory
Permission denied, please try again.
ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory
Permission denied, please try again.
ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory
root@192.168.2.100: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password).: Connection reset by peer