Bug 711372 - Connecting to Citrix Xen with invalid SSL gives unhelpful error message
Summary: Connecting to Citrix Xen with invalid SSL gives unhelpful error message
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: libvirt
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Matthew Booth
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Reported: 2011-06-07 10:20 UTC by Matthew Booth
Modified: 2011-06-10 11:15 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-06-10 11:15:00 UTC
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Description Matthew Booth 2011-06-07 10:20:02 UTC 
Description of problem:
Attempting to connect to a Citrix Xen server which has a self-signed certificate gives the following:

virsh -c XenAPI://citrix-xen.example.com/
Enter username for citrix-xen.example.com: root
Enter root's password for citrix-xen.example.com: 
error: authentication failed: (null)
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor

Note that:
1. There is no indication in the above that the failure relates to SSL. In fact, it specifically points at an authentication failure.
2. Citrix Xen installs with a self-signed certificate by default.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
492e493a1e6f31551583bb7de9500c312b716f42
Comment 1 Matthew Booth 2011-06-07 11:05:14 UTC 
Patch posted upstream:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-June/msg00314.html

This improves the output to:

virsh -c XenAPI://citrix-xen.example.com/
Enter username for citrix-xen.example.com: root
Enter root's password for citrix-xen.example.com: 
error: authentication failed: TRANSPORT_FAULT
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
Comment 2 Matthew Booth 2011-06-10 11:15:00 UTC 
This has now been pushed.
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