Description of problem: $ virt-viewer -c qemu+tcp://somehost/system rhel5xen libvir: Remote error : Failed to start SASL negotiation: -4 (SASL(-4): no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found) unable to connect to libvirt qemu+tcp://somehost/system Looking at the code it just calls virConnectOpenReadonly() and thus does not provide any authentication callback. This prevents connection using SASL+Digest-MD5 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.0.3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Config libvirtd to use SASL+Digest-MD5 2. virt-viewer -c qemu+tcp://somehost/system SOMEGUEST 2. 3. Actual results: libvir: Remote error : Failed to start SASL negotiation: -4 (SASL(-4): no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found) Expected results: Prompts for username+password, and then connects to VNC Additional info:
Created attachment 342829 [details] Fix auth handling
Built in virt-viewer-0.0.3-5.fc11
virt-viewer-0.0.3-5.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virt-viewer-0.0.3-5.fc11
virt-viewer-0.0.3-5.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update virt-viewer'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-5519
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
virt-viewer-0.0.3-6.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update virt-viewer'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-5519
virt-viewer-0.0.3-6.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.