virt-ssh-helper(8)

virt-ssh-helper8

Libvirt socket proxy

Usage

virt-ssh-helper [OPTION] ... URI

Overview

virt-ssh-helper is an internal tool used to handle connections coming from remote clients, and it's not intended to be called directly by the user.

Options

URI

Local libvirt URI to connect the remote client to.

-r, --readonly

Make the connection read-only.

-h, --help

Display command line help usage then exit.

-V, --version

Display version information then exit.

Exit status

The exit status will be zero on success, non-zero on failure.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 12
  2. 13
  3. Arch

Author

Daniel P. Berrangé

Bugs

Please report all bugs you discover. This should be done via either:

1.

the mailing list

<https://libvirt.org/contact.html>

2.

the bug tracker

<https://libvirt.org/bugs.html>

Alternatively, you may report bugs to your software distributor / vendor.

License

virt-ssh-helper is distributed under the terms of the GNU LGPL v2+. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

From libvirt 1:12.8.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.