On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 04:20:50PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > libguestfs use of libvirt is a bit of a mess at the moment, since we > > end up opening two connections if you use the -d option ... this is > > something I'm intending to fix. > > > > Nevertheless, it should be using NULL everywhere, so depending on > > whether you run it as root or not, it will use qemu:///system > > or qemu:///session. > > > > It's somewhere on the to-do list to: > > > > (1) Fix the utilities so they only need to open one connection > > (this will matter in the remote case). > > > > (2) Support authentication in libvirt by mapping libvirt auth > > callbacks to libguestfs events. > > Is this the reason why the first command fails, but the others work ok > for me? > > virt-filesystems -v -c qemu+ssh:///system -d sles11sp2 --all --long > > virt-rescue -v -c qemu+ssh:///system -d opensuse12 -r > virsh -c qemu+ssh:///system list --all
virt-rescue doesn't use the libvirt backend. See: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/2e36adf83ce4a9cbccd313d6f3a88b5c5973ce44 This is just a shortcoming of the libvirt backend, albeit a complicated one to fix. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
