doesn't work for me(with curl 7.15 and ESX4i)

[root@rain8 libvirt]# virsh -c esx://172.30.8.63?no_verify=1

Enter username for 172.30.8.63 [root]:

Enter root password for 172.30.8.63:

error: internal error curl_easy_perform() returned an error: SSL peer certificate was not ok (51)

error: failed to connect to the hypervisor

I had to set(unset) CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST in order to connect:

--- a/src/esx/esx_vi.c

+++ b/src/esx/esx_vi.c

@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ esxVI_Context_Connect(virConnectPtr conn, esxVI_Context *ctx, const char *url,

curl_easy_setopt(ctx->curl_handle, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_easy_setopt(ctx->curl_handle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);

curl_easy_setopt(ctx->curl_handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, noVerify ? 0 : 1);

+ curl_easy_setopt(ctx->curl_handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, noVerify ? 0 : 1);

curl_easy_setopt(ctx->curl_handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "");

curl_easy_setopt(ctx->curl_handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ctx->curl_headers);

curl_easy_setopt(ctx->curl_handle, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION,

----

[root@rain8 libvirt]# virsh -c esx://172.30.8.63?no_verify=1 Enter username for 172.30.8.63 [root]: Enter root password for 172.30.8.63: Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal. Type: 'help' for help with commands 'quit' to quit virsh # list Id Name State ---------------------------------- 16 rh53 running 160 Rhel-server 5_3 running virsh #

From: Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte@googlemail.com>
To: Shahar Klein <shaharklein@yahoo.com>
Cc: Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu>; libvir-list@redhat.com
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 3:41:16 PM
Subject: Re: [libvirt] VMware support and libcurl on rhel-u1

2009/7/27 Shahar Klein <shaharklein@yahoo.com>:
> apperantly I needed to unset CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST as well
> patched that and it is working now
> 10x
> Shahar

With latest git HEAD you should be able to connect using

virsh -c esx://rain3?no_verify=1

Regards,
Matthias