[libvirt-users] Virsh+QEMU, SSH issue on compiled libvirt

[Eric Blake]

On 03/07/2013 12:37 PM, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) wrote:

> 
> Just changing
> # define LIBVIRTD_PRIV_UNIX_SOCKET LOCALSTATEDIR
> "/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock"
> # define LIBVIRTD_PRIV_UNIX_SOCKET_RO LOCALSTATEDIR
> "/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro"
> To
> # define LIBVIRTD_PRIV_UNIX_SOCKET "/var" "/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock"
> # define LIBVIRTD_PRIV_UNIX_SOCKET_RO "/var" "/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro"
> 
> Fixed the problem and things worked fine.
> 
> It would be nice for a client only builds to be able to control through a
> ./configure argument or through some other .conf file where the server
> expects to find its socket file.

But you DO have that capability:

./configure --localstatedir=/var

> 
> That said, I am wondering why the client has to know where the server
> maintains its libvirt-sock files? Can't client and the server both talk in
> relative path terms instead of absolute?

You're welcome to propose a patch along those lines.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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