Re: [Libvir] Re: [PATCH 1/2] virDomainMigrate implementation (Xen only, no remote, no qemu, no virsh)

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:30:33AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>For instance, let's say at a university they use an ldap directory to 
> >>authenticate users and they decide to implement a migration handler 
> >>that uses that for authentication.  They may name this "uni://" and 
> >>it'll just work.  How would they get at this in libvirt without 
> >>exposing URIs directly?
> >
> >My latest proposal[1] has a transport parameter (a string) which 
> >covers this, in as much as it would allow you to construct URIs which 
> >are:
> >
> >  <transport>://<hostname>:<port>
> 
> SSH requires:
> 
> ssh://[user ]hostname[:port]
> 
> So that wouldn't work :-(

Sure it would - rich was just showing simplified syntax - the URI rules/spec 
allow for a username and we already use this syntax with a username in the 
remote driver URIs. eg

  $ virsh --connect qemu+ssh://root celery virt boston redhat com/system list --all

Regards,
Dan.
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