Re: [libvirt] Web Interface -> LibVirt Communication?

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 06:57:11AM -0700, Michael March wrote: > This might not be the 'right way' but here is how I handled > communication to each Xen instance my web interface is managing. I used > the ssh style connect string.. even if it was a local instance.. here is > a line ripped right from my code: > > server_list={"michael":['127.0.0.1',""], "tito":['192.168.101.5',""], > "jermaine":['192.168.101.6',""} > > .. then later in my code... > > for server in server_list: > server_list[server][1] = > libvirt.open('xen+ssh://root@'+server_list[server][0]+'/') > I wouldn't recommend using the SSH transport for serious management tools. If you want a simple username/password based auth scheme which is trivial to setup, then the Digest-MD5 scheme is best bet. The SSH tunnel capability is handy for ad-hoc sysadmin work, but it suffers from having a high initial connection overhead and poor diagnostics when things go wrong. Digest-MD5 is easy to setup, only requiring you to create a user on each managed node which your app will authenticate as: http://libvirt.org/auth.html#ACL_server_username