Bug 1241313

Summary:	Automatically detect socket path when using qemu+ssh:///session
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Spencer Baugh <sbaugh>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
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Description Spencer Baugh 2015-07-09 01:11:35 UTC

qemu+ssh:///session requires the parameter ?socket=/path/to/libvirtd/session/socket but that path could be automatically detected by checking the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR environment variable on the remote host, and defaulting to the appropriate value if it is unset.

(See my other Bug #1241311 for an explanation of why I think it is useful to have good support for remote access to a QEMU session)

Comment 1 Peter Krempa 2015-07-13 06:12:35 UTC

I'm planing to fix this issue for a long time now by using virsh to do the transport we are now using netcat for. Unfortunately I didn't have enough time to tackle that problem lately.

Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2020-02-10 15:17:22 UTC

This is something I have work in progress to address.

Comment 3 Daniel Berrangé 2020-09-11 10:24:01 UTC

This is merged for the next 6.8.0 release at the end of this month.

f8ec7c842df9e40c6607eae9b0223766cb226336 rpc: use new virt-ssh-helper binary for remote tunnelling
6e4143c8510282a3070fe737af4b9ddb5b16fd58 rpc: switch order of args in virNetClientNewSSH
dfad1b551dcd31a56e97931d23f3d20c58e4cd05 remote: introduce virt-ssh-helper binary
1ba30bc1e5889f3ae8ef1e0e2e94b48aaa03fa5a remote: extract logic for determining daemon to connect to
7ce887989a2e377aae15b4ad3f9ab93af0c56be2 remote: split out function for constructing socket path
3dfd0cbf250f7b2fc65f90402924ea678a310b08 remote: parse the remote transport string earlier
849de2b844ec53955a9900ffec25da626d1d86d9 remote: split out function for parsing URI scheme
9949d9b28faa61fc59a98962bd72d4dd240b1177 remote: split off enums into separate source file
5cd80b04d918c001587ba262cc4e44cd7a16b198 remote: push logic for default netcat binary into common helper
019b13dd2082e169ffe676b922ce475ae1f264e8 rpc: merge logic for generating remote SSH shell script


Both client and server will need the new libvirt for this to work.