[libvirt PATCH 9/9] rpc: use new virt-nc binary for remote tunnelling

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 16:11 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 14:25 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 02:25:14PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > > Mh, that makes sense but I'm still wary of using "proxy" due to the
> > > potential for confusion, since in this case the proxy is on the
> > > opposite side of the connection than one would probably expect it
> > > to be. Something like "remoteproxy" or "serverproxy", perhaps?
> > 
> > I don't think there's really any problem of confusion here unless
> > someone doesn't read the docs at all, in which case they won't
> > even know about this parameter. So I don't think using a more
> > verbose term is any benefit.
> 
> Okay.

The other day I randomly realized the ssh-based transports already
accept a 'netcat' URI parameter which can be used to point libvirt
to a non-standard nc stand-in. With that in mind, is it really
necessary to introduce another URI parameter? Can't we just reuse
the existing one?

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization