When accessing libvirtd over a SSH tunnel, the remote driver needs a way
to proxy the SSH input/output stream to a suitable libvirt daemon. This
is currently done by spawning netcat, pointing it to the libvirtd socket
path. This is problematic for a number of reasons:
- The socket path varies according to the --prefix chosen at build
time. The remote client is seeing the local prefix, but what we
need is the remote prefix
- The socket path varies according to remote env variables, such as
the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR location. Again we see the local XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
value, but what we need is the remote value (if any)
- The remote driver doesn't know whether it must connect to the legacy
libvirtd or the modular daemons, so must always assume legacy
libvirtd for back-compat. This means we'll always end up using the
virtproxyd daemon adding an extra hop in the RPC layer.
- We can not able to autospawn the libvirtd daemon for session mode
access
To address these problems this patch introduces the 'virtd-ssh-helper'
program which takes the URI for the remote driver as a CLI parameter.
It then figures out which daemon to connect to and its socket path,
using the same code that the remote driver client would on the remote
host's build of libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The remoteDriverTransport and remoteDriverMode enums are going to be
needed by source files beyond the remote driver client.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
During the switch to meson, one of the patches mistakenly changed the
runtime socket prefix for {libvirtd, virtproxyd} to "libvirtd-" from
the original "libvirt-". Not to be mistaken with the systemd unit name
which actually follows the daemon name, IOW the systemd unit name
remains as e.g. "libvirtd.socket", but the actual unix socket created
on the filesystem that the daemon binds to must be named "libvirt-sock"
and not "libvirtd-sock".
Fixes: dd4f2c73ad
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
We have to compile the libvirt-admin.so outside of src/admin directory
because it depends on libvirt.so.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
