[Libvir] remote access ?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 05:34:04PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:27:38PM -0400, Mark Johnson wrote:
> > I was looking through some of the remote code.. I was wondering
> > if a 32-bit virsh client is supposed to be able to connect to a 64-bit
> > libvirtd?
> 
> Yes. The wire protocol is 32/64 invariant.
> 
> > The reason I ask is because I saw some references to longs..
> > For example, in xdr_remote_node_get_info_ret()
> 
> I must admit to being puzzelled as to why rpcgen decided to use
> IXDR_GET_LONG there. All the rest of the code in that function is
> using int, and the protocol is defined to be int.
> 
> Are you actually seeing failures when doing 32 -> 64 remote connections
> or vica-verca ?

FYI, I completely forgot, but I am actually using 32- > 64 on a regular
basis. My laptop is 32-bit and I'm using virt-manager to remotely access
64-bit hosts using both SSH + TLS data transports

Dan.
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