Hi Christophe, I hope this is not too much to ask, but would it be possible for OvirtProxy to have a ca-cert-file property as well as a ca-cert property? This way, supporting the spice-ca-file option as well as the existing aSPICE functionality will be much easier.
Thanks! iordan On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:09 PM, i iordanov <iiorda...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Christophe, > > I read through some govirt code, and I think you're right that gvfs is > only used during the fetching of the certificate. If that's the case, I > will start by not fetching the CA automatically, but requiring for users to > provide it to aSPICE the same way as they have to provide it for a simple > SPICE connection (within the "Import CA" dialog in aSPICE, which is > analogous to the --spice-ca-file option in virt-viewer). I think this will > work for most if not all people. > > Thanks again! > iordan > > > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Christophe Fergeau > <cferg...@redhat.com>wrote: > >> Hey Iordan, >> >> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 01:11:45PM -0400, i iordanov wrote: >> > Hi Christophe, >> > >> > It is currently very hard, bordering on impossible to build gvfs for >> > Android, because it ends up depending on GTK. The sequence of >> > dependencies is: >> > >> > glib network I/O -> gvfs -> libsoup-gnome -> gnome-keyring -> gcr-3 -> >> > gcr-ui-3 -> GTK >> > >> > The glib guys are arguing that this is not a bug, since it's just a >> > dependency that's missing, but I am trying to convince them that the >> > low-level glib should not end up depending on a UI library... >> > >> > Hence for the moment, I absolutely cannot use glib network I/O. Can >> > you tell me, since you've written libgovirt, do you think it's >> > possible to add functionality to *it* rather than writing workarounds >> > for client software? I could work around this issue in aSPICE, but >> > that would not help for any other client on any other platform that >> > doesn't have GTK. >> > >> > Regardless of whether you do agree it's best if govirt either stopped >> > relying on glib network file I/O or had an option to use a different >> > method, what library would you say would be best suited to replace all >> > the network file I/O operations that you have in govirt with a >> > download -> local file I/O sequence? Libcurl comes to mind, but >> > perhaps libsoup is better suited for the purpose in your opinion? >> >> Could you try what I suggested in >> >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2013-September/014430.html >> ? I think gvfs is only used if you use the helpers to fetch the >> certificate, and the rest of the code is just doing calls into >> librest/libsoup which I think are not using gio/gvfs. >> If this is a correct, then I think it's not a big issue that you don't >> have >> gvfs on your platform. If it is, I'll have to look where/how it's used to >> figure out how to workaround this. >> >> Hope that helps, >> >> Christophe >> > > > > -- > The conscious mind has only one thread of execution. > -- The conscious mind has only one thread of execution.
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