On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:09:22AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 02:28:44PM +0900, Atsushi SAKAI wrote:
Hi, Rich
I have a question about SSH support of libvirt on Windows. Is there any reason for not supporting SSH.
The initial problem is that to use SSH we fork/exec.... not gonna work on Windows which has no concept of fork/exec. So at the very least we'd need a completely separate branch of code to deal with this on Windows.
Co-incidentally I'm in the process of changing all code in libvirt which uses fork/exec to make use of the 'virRun' and 'virExec' functions in the util.c file. So if we could figure out an alternate impl of these virRun & virExec functions for Windows, that'd make it easier to try SSH support
That's one place where looking at existing glib function can really help, they have gone over this kind of problems, and i assume found APIs they could make consistent across platforms. http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Spawning-Processes.html the APIs are a bit frightening though ... Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/