Use virt-viewer from OSX to connect to remote KVM on Centos 7

Posted on by Andy

Here a simple howto to prepare the connection:

  • Install MacPorts
  • Insrall XQuartz
  • Install virt-viewer
    # sudo port install virt-viewer
  • Create SSH id on OSX (used for passwordless login)
    # ssh-keygen
  • Then copy this key to your remote server (~/.ssh/id_XXX.pub)
    # ssh-copy-id root@server.machine

Now you can connect with the following URL:

# virt-viewer -c qemu+ssh://root@server.machine/system?socket=/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock