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

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Nov 17 14:02:39 UTC 2010


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 02:53:15PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> 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.

Also this is mixing up two different drivers, the remote driver vs the
ESX driver. The remote driver with TLS should in fact work, and is indeed
the *only* transport for the driver which we can recommend using from
Windows clients. qemu+tcp:// should not be recommended, because there is
no SASL support yet  and no one wants to be using this unencrypted with
no auth.

Regards,
Daniel
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