How to use virsh in RHEV Hypervisor ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Cannot use virsh in RHEV-Hypervisor , as it requires user & password authentication .
# virsh list
Please enter your authentication name: 
Please enter your password: 
error: Failed to reconnect to the hypervisor
error: no valid connection
error: authentication failed: Failed to step SASL negotiation: -1 (SASL(-1): generic failure: All-whitespace username.)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Host / Hypervisor 6.x

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