A set of homebrew formulae to install [virt-manager
]
virt-manager and virt-viewer
on Mac OSX.
brew tap tomgagnier/homebrew-virt-manager
brew install virt-manager virt-viewer
When connecting to remote URIs, you probably need to override the libvirt
socket location, see www.jedi.be.
virt-manager -c 'qemu+ssh://user@libvirthost/system?socket=/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock'
virt-viewer -c 'qemu+ssh://user@libvirthost/system?socket=/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock'
This formula for virt-manager
does not include the openssh-askpass
dependency and does not prompt for passwords in a popup window. Here are two
workarounds:
-
Run
virt-manager
with either the--debug
or--no-fork
option to get password prompt via the CLI. -
Set up SSH keys between your local and remote system to avoid the prompt.
I've not yet tested virt-manager
against any local URIs/hypervisors. If you
get virt-manager
working with a local hypervisor and needed to take any
special steps, feel free to share the details.
If virt-manager
or its dependencies have been upgraded recently
(brew upgrade
), it's possible that a reinstall may fix the issue (see [#39]
(jeffreywildman#39)).