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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