[libvirt] [PATCH] docs: added compiling page and significantly expanded windows page

[Matthias Bolte]

2010/11/17 Justin Clift <jclift at redhat.com>:
> Also added an additional menu placement for the windows page, in
> order to attract further potential testers.
> ---

> +      <li>
> +        The working connection types at the moment are very limited.  Only
> +        <b>qemu+tcp://</b> is known to work for sure.  Anything using SSH,
> +        such as <b>qemu+ssh://</b>, definitely doesn't work.  Connecting
> +        to ESX servers doesn't yet work either, due to a bug involving
> +        GnuTLS, which should be fixed in the next release.
> +      </li>

Don't blame GnuTLS here. As stated on IRC my initial assumption was
wrong. The problem is probably not in GnuTLS, as gnutls-cli works
fine. The problem is in the way libcurl and GnuTLS interact. Therefore
libvirt's GnuTLS usage is not affected, only libcurl's.

I know how to fix it, but I don't understand in detail yet why it works.

Matthias