[libvirt] Unix socket credentials on OSX?

Saturday, 12 February 2011

Hi all,

Interestingly, MacOS X has a working PolicyKit port, providing version 0.96.

Attempting to build libvirt 0.8.7 against it gives this error though:

  libvirtd.c:1298:4: error: #error "UNIX socket credentials not supported/implemented
on this platform yet..."

Does anyone have an idea of whether implementing Unix socket credentials for OSX would be
a big task, or a small one, or ?

I'm thinking this could be what's needed to let qemu+ssh:// connections from OSX
to RHEL/Fedora servers work.

Not critical at all, but would be nice, etc. :)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift