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This patch adds helper functions that enable us to use libssh2 in conjunction with libvirt's virNetSockets for ssh transport instead of spawning "ssh" client process. This implemetation supports tunneled plaintext, keyboard-interactive, private key, ssh agent based and null authentication. Libvirt's Auth callback is used for interaction with the user. (Keyboard interactive authentication, adding of host keys, private key passphrases). This enables seamless integration into the application using libvirt. No helpers as "ssh-askpass" are needed. Reading and writing of OpenSSH style "known_hosts" files is supported. Communication is done using SSH exec channel, where the user may specify arbitrary command to be executed on the remote side and reads and writes to/from stdin/out are sent through the ssh channel. Usage of stderr is not (yet) supported.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>