Pair to Mac: An error occurred while trying to connect to the Broker

Question

I'm trying to go through the Pair to Mac procedure in order to debug a MAUI application on iOS. However, using Visual Studio 2022 Preview 6, I'm getting the most peculiar results.

Here's the error log I found at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Xamarin\Logs\17.0:

Xamarin.Messaging.Integration.State.ServerStateContext Error: 0 : An error occurred while trying to connect to the Broker...  
Xamarin.Messaging.Ssh.Exceptions.SshCommandException: Probed locations for Mono on the Server: mono64, /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/bin/mono64, /usr/bin/mono64, /bin/mono64, /usr/local/bin/mono64, /usr/sbin/mono64, /sbin/mono64, /Users/alexmang/Library/Caches/Xamarin/XMA/Runtimes/mono/bin/mono64, mono, /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/bin/mono, /usr/bin/mono, /bin/mono, /usr/local/bin/mono, /usr/sbin/mono, /sbin/mono, /Users/alexmang/Library/Caches/Xamarin/XMA/Runtimes/mono/bin/mono  
   at Xamarin.Messaging.Ssh.SshCommands.<GetMonoDirectoryAsync>d__36.MoveNext() in D:\a\_work\1\s\src\Xamarin.Messaging.Ssh\SshCommands.cs:line 527  
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---  
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()  
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)  
   at Xamarin.Messaging.Ssh.SshCommands.<CreatePListAsync>d__58.MoveNext() in D:\a\_work\1\s\src\Xamarin.Messaging.Ssh\SshCommands.cs:line 807  
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---  
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()  
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)  
   at Xamarin.Messaging.Ssh.SshCommands.<StartProcessWithLaunchCtlAsync>d__29.MoveNext() in D:\a\_work\1\s\src\Xamarin.Messaging.Ssh\SshCommands.cs:line 311  
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---  
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()  
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)  
   at Xamarin.Messaging.Ssh.MessagingRemoteCommands.<StartProcessAsync>d__3.MoveNext() in D:\a\_work\1\s\src\Xamarin.Messaging.Ssh\MessagingRemoteCommands.cs:line 29  
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---  
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()  
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)  
   at Xamarin.Messaging.Ssh.MessagingService.<StartBrokerAsync>d__103.MoveNext() in D:\a\_work\1\s\src\Xamarin.Messaging.Ssh\MessagingService.cs:line 844  
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---  
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()  
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)  
   at Xamarin.Messaging.Ssh.MessagingService.<ConnectMqttAsync>d__94.MoveNext() in D:\a\_work\1\s\src\Xamarin.Messaging.Ssh\MessagingService.cs:line 658: 08/07/2022 02:20:08Z  
    DateTime=2022-08-07T02:20:08.0837165Z: 08/07/2022 02:20:08Z  
Xamarin.Messaging.Integration.State.ServerStateContext Error: 0 : !An error occurred while trying to connect to the Broker...: 08/07/2022 02:20:08Z  
    DateTime=2022-08-07T02:20:08.0847171Z: 08/07/2022 02:20:08Z  

Answer 1

Solution was to install the Mono framework manually.
I feel dumb about it now, really, but expected this to be among the prerequisited of Pair to Mac.