[Libvir] [Q] about virsh-connect

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:54:05PM +0900, S.Sakamoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question.
> 
> ?$B!!Previously(libvirt 0.2.1) We can do remote connection via URI successfully..
> (virsh --connect http://127.0.0.1:8000 list)
> But Current version(libvirt-current) cannot connect remotely.
> This event occurs in both general user and administrator.
>  
> I investigate the code and found folloing code is included (see line 94)
> 
> If "name" is not "xen", decline connection.
> ("# virsh --help connect" is output with "<name> hypervisor connection URI")
> 
> Is this change intentionally?

No, that's a bug. Although I doubt many people use http:// URLs in the wild
due to complete lack of security, we did previously support it, so we need
to make sure it continues to work.

Dan.
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