[Libvir] libvirt and accessing remote systems

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Some highlights from today's investigation into secure RPCs (a topic 
which I want to bring to a close as soon as possible).

* TI-RPC was suggested as an alternative to SunRPC.  The available 
library has licensing problems which may preclude any integration into 
libvirt.

* SunRPC over IPv6: tested and working

* Either xmlrpc-c or Curl (which it uses for HTTP connections) cannot 
manage to do persistent connections, which makes XML-RPC very slow.  I 
haven't yet got to the bottom of why this isn't working, since Curl 
certainly ought to be able to do keepalives.

* Some performance numbers which you can take with a large grain of salt 
are available here:

http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/secure_rpc/#performance

The other issues are written up in the above document for your browsing 
pleasure.

Rich.

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