libvirt/build-aux
Daniel P. Berrangé dfad1b551d remote: introduce virt-ssh-helper binary
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>
2020-09-09 16:46:22 +01:00
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check-spacing.pl Remove all Author(s): lines from source file headers 2018-12-13 16:08:38 +00:00
Makefile.in build-aux: set the PYTHON variable in the Makefile 2020-08-03 13:54:15 +02:00
Makefile.nonreentrant meson: add syntax-check 2020-08-03 09:27:06 +02:00
meson.build build-aux: set the PYTHON variable in the Makefile 2020-08-03 13:54:15 +02:00
syntax-check.mk remote: introduce virt-ssh-helper binary 2020-09-09 16:46:22 +01:00
useless-if-before-free build: import gnulib's syntax-check make rules 2019-10-09 13:36:29 +01:00
vc-list-files build: import gnulib's syntax-check make rules 2019-10-09 13:36:29 +01:00