[Libguestfs] Can't access remote URI

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 05:30:03PM +0800, Wanlong Gao wrote:
> On 12/20/2012 05:08 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 04:00:10PM +0800, Wanlong Gao wrote:
> >> Hi Rich,
> >>
> >> We just found that the libguestfs can't access the remote URI.
> >> When doing guestfs__add_drive_opts(), we always add files from
> >> local system, it's related the -c|--connect option.
> >>
> >> As I know, we are using local kernel to lunch the min-guest,
> >> and it's hard to attach remote disks to our local min-guest.
> >>
> >> Our test team found this problem by using following command,
> >>
> >> # virt-sysprep -c qemu+ssh://<host>/system -d domname
> >>
> >> Then, for example the path of remote disk is /work/rhel.img,
> >> but we are about to access the /work/rhel.img locally.
> >>
> >> So, IMHO, if we are about to not support the remote URI, we
> >> should give a error message first. But access local disks
> >> instead of remote disks are definitely wrong here.
> >>
> >> Maybe we also need document this.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts?
> > 
> > John Eckersberg is working on implementing this for libguestfs 1.22.
> > Most of the libvirt support has been done already, but there is some
> > more libvirt and libguestfs work.
> > 
> > As for reporting an error, it's difficult because libvirt doesn't give
> > a simple way to find out if a URI is "remote" or not (whatever
> > "remote" means).  And even if libvirt did, it's not necessarily true
> > that remote URIs wouldn't work, eg. if the user attached a LUN to both
> > the remote and local machine.
> 
> So, at this time, we should report a useful message to user but not just
> fail without any thing. Right?

I don't know how you can report a useful message, since it's not
obvious if a libvirt URI is remote.  eg. How about the URI
"qemu+ssh://foo/session" where the hostname of the local machine is
"foo.example.com"?  Or the hostname is "bar.example.com" but the local
DNS contains a PTR record "foo" -> "bar"?

Rich.

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