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

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