What's a good way to ask if a libvirt connection is remote or not? (Fundamentally I want to know if the disk images are openable as local files, and I'm using "remote" as an proxy for this property.) One way might be to compare virConnectGetHostname with the local hostname. This would fail if the client and server had the hostname set incorrectly (eg. "localhost.localdomain"). Another way might be some hairy libvirt URL parsing. Another way would be to speculatively open the disk images. This would fail if the client and server had guests with coincidentally named disk images. Or I could write a qemu block driver that could use virDomainBlockPeek. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw