using virt-viewer remote access KVM guest vm

sometime you try to access someone's host machine, which KVM running several vm image, you want to access one of the vm.

one the remote host (name: wawr-builder, ip 10.71.50.228) machine: 

wawr@wawr-builder:~$ virsh list

 Id    Name                           State

----------------------------------------------------

 2     Ubuntu64                       running

 11    av_virtual_3                   running

from my local machine, you can do:

jim@jim-dell-5810:~$ virt-viewer --connect qemu+ssh://wawr@10.71.50.228/system av_virtual_3

With the above, you’ll have to enter your SSH password twice – first to establish the connection to the hypervisor and secondly to establish a tunnel to the VM’s VNC/SPICE session

see original post:

https://www.jethrocarr.com/2012/08/04/virt-viewer-remote-access-tricks/