Hi, attached is a patch for virt-manager to use the netcat binary instead of nc if it is found. Cheers, -- andreas -- Andreas Schneider, SUSE Labs, http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
Index: virt-manager-0.6.0/src/virtManager/details.py
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--- virt-manager-0.6.0.orig/src/virtManager/details.py
+++ virt-manager-0.6.0/src/virtManager/details.py
@@ -1066,7 +1066,10 @@ class vmmDetails(gobject.GObject):
argv = ["ssh", "ssh", "-p", sshport]
if username:
argv += ['-l', username]
- argv += [ server, "nc", vncaddr, str(vncport) ]
+ netcat = "nc"
+ if os.path.exists('/usr/bin/netcat'):
+ netcat = "netcat"
+ argv += [ server, netcat, vncaddr, str(vncport) ]
os.execlp(*argv)
os._exit(1)
else:
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