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I'm using Virtualbox 4.3.18 on my Arch Linux Host machine and libvirt-bin 1.2.9 on my Ubuntu Server Cloud guest machine. Everytime I try to follow this tutorial I receive the following error when I run virsh:

Command:

virsh -c vbox+ssh://leandro@10.0.3.15/system list --all

Error:

error: failed to connect to the hypervisor

error: internal error: unable to initialize VirtualBox driver API

Someone know how to fix this?

Your installation of libvirtd needs to be configured to handle the vbox+ssh connection type. Details on how to do this are covered here, titled: VirtualBox hypervisor driver.

There's a sample domain XML config that you'll need to load into libvirtd so that it knows how to talk to the VirtualBox VM.

<domain type='vbox'>

  <name>vbox</name>

  <uuid>4dab22b31d52d8f32516782e98ab3fa0</uuid>



  <os>

    <type>hvm</type>

    <boot dev='cdrom'/>

    <boot dev='hd'/>

    <boot dev='fd'/>

    <boot dev='network'/>

  </os>



  <memory>654321</memory>

  <vcpu>1</vcpu>



  <features>

    <pae/>

    <acpi/>

    <apic/>

  </features>



  <devices>

    <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>

      <source file='/home/user/Downloads/slax-6.0.9.iso'/>

      <target dev='hdc'/>

      <readonly/>

    </disk>



    <disk type='file' device='disk'>

      <source file='/home/user/tmp/vbox.vdi'/>

      <target dev='hdd'/>

    </disk>



    <disk type='file' device='floppy'>

      <source file='/home/user/tmp/WIN98C.IMG'/>

      <target dev='fda'/>

    </disk>



    <filesystem type='mount'>

      <source dir='/home/user/stuff'/>

      <target dir='my-shared-folder'/>

    </filesystem>



    <!--BRIDGE-->

    <interface type='bridge'>

      <source bridge='eth0'/>

      <mac address='00:16:3e:5d:c7:9e'/>

      <model type='am79c973'/>

    </interface>



    <!--NAT-->

    <interface type='user'>

      <mac address='56:16:3e:5d:c7:9e'/>

      <model type='82540eM'/>

    </interface>



    <sound model='sb16'/>



    <parallel type='dev'>

      <source path='/dev/pts/1'/>

      <target port='0'/>

    </parallel>



    <parallel type='dev'>

      <source path='/dev/pts/2'/>

      <target port='1'/>

    </parallel>



    <serial type="dev">

      <source path="/dev/ttyS0"/>

      <target port="0"/>

    </serial>



    <serial type="pipe">

      <source path="/tmp/serial.txt"/>

      <target port="1"/>

    </serial>



    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb'>

      <source>

        <vendor id='0x1234'/>

        <product id='0xbeef'/>

      </source>

    </hostdev>



    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb'>

      <source>

        <vendor id='0x4321'/>

        <product id='0xfeeb'/>

      </source>

    </hostdev>

  </devices>

</domain>

Save this to a file, say my.xml, on your system and then use virsh to import it.

$ virsh create my.xml

NOTE: You'll also need the libvirt daemon driver installed. On Fedora 20 it's in a package called: libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox. You'll need libvirt-daemon along with the interface, libvirt-daemon-driver-interface. I would assume there are similar packages that provide these on ArchLinux.

References

KVM/Virsh - Ubuntu documentation