Some netcat implementations does not support unix domain sockets (-U). Distros that ship these implementations often also ships socat, that do support this. This is a reworked patch based on the openSUSE libvirt package. The original patch may be found in this source rpm: http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/suse/src/libv... * configure.in: Check for --with-socat and set USE_SOCAT in config.h * src/remote_internal.c: Honour USE_SOCAT by selecting between netcat/nc and socat at compile time. --- configure.in | 7 +++++++ src/remote_internal.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in index b905b23..732ef68 100644 --- a/configure.in +++ b/configure.in @@ -153,6 +153,13 @@ if test -n "$MODPROBE"; then [Location or name of the modprobe program]) fi +dnl Check if socat should be used instead of netcat +AC_ARG_WITH([socat], +[ --with-socat use socat instead of netcat (off)]) +if test "$with_socat" = "yes" ; then + AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([USE_SOCAT], 1, [whether socat should be used instead of netcat]) +fi + dnl Specific dir for HTML output ? AC_ARG_WITH([html-dir], [AC_HELP_STRING([--with-html-dir=path], [path to base html directory, default $datadir/doc/html])], diff --git a/src/remote_internal.c b/src/remote_internal.c index a58b768..ae44335 100644 --- a/src/remote_internal.c +++ b/src/remote_internal.c @@ -726,12 +726,28 @@ doRemoteOpen (virConnectPtr conn, cmd_argv[j++] = strdup ("none"); } cmd_argv[j++] = strdup (priv->hostname); +#ifdef USE_SOCAT + cmd_argv[j++] = strdup ("socat"); + cmd_argv[j++] = strdup ("-"); + + char *socat_addr = 0; + if ((asprintf (&socat_addr, "GOPEN:%s", + sockname ? sockname : + (flags & VIR_CONNECT_RO + ? LIBVIRTD_PRIV_UNIX_SOCKET_RO + : LIBVIRTD_PRIV_UNIX_SOCKET))) < 0) { + error (conn, VIR_ERR_SYSTEM_ERROR, strerror (ENOMEM)); + goto failed; + } + cmd_argv[j++] = socat_addr; +#else cmd_argv[j++] = strdup (netcat ? netcat : "nc"); cmd_argv[j++] = strdup ("-U"); cmd_argv[j++] = strdup (sockname ? sockname : (flags & VIR_CONNECT_RO ? LIBVIRTD_PRIV_UNIX_SOCKET_RO : LIBVIRTD_PRIV_UNIX_SOCKET)); +#endif cmd_argv[j++] = 0; assert (j == nr_args); for (j = 0; j < (nr_args-1); j++) -- 1.6.2