Re: [libvirt PATCH 7/9] remote: introduce virtd-nc helper binary

On 7/9/20 8:36 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > When accessing libvirtd over a SSH tunnel, the remote driver must spawn > the remote 'nc' process, pointing it to the libvirtd socket path. This > is problematic for a number of reasons: > > - The socket path varies according to the --prefix chosen at build > time. The remote client is seeing the local prefix, but what we > need is the remote prefix > > - The socket path varies according to remote env variables, such as > the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR location. Again we see the local XDG_RUNTIME_DIR > value, but what we need is the remote value (if any) > > - We can not able to autospawn the libvirtd daemon for session mode > access > > To address these problems this patch introduces the 'virtd-nc' helper > program which takes the URI for the remote driver as a CLI parameter. > It then figures out the socket path to connect to using the same > code as the remote driver does on the remote host. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; > --- > build-aux/syntax-check.mk | 2 +- > po/POTFILES.in | 1 + > src/remote/Makefile.inc.am | 30 +++ > src/remote/remote_nc.c | 424 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > src/rpc/virnetsocket.h | 1 + > 5 files changed, 457 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > create mode 100644 src/remote/remote_nc.c The spec file needs to be updated too.