[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#614291: Bug#614291: Bug#614291: Unable to establish qemu+ssh connection

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Sun Mar 6 16:37:47 UTC 2011


Hi,
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:54:02PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
[..snip..] 
> So, I see two solutions, beside the fact that libvirt-bin should depend
> on netcat-openbsd:

virt-manager invokes netcat on the remote side for console access.

> 
> 1) libvirt-bin calls /bin/nc.openbsd, not elegant, but it avoids any
>    problem in an automatic way

This would break non Debian systems. We could check for nc.openbsd first
and then fall back to nc though (which would mean fixing up
Autodetect-if-the-remote-nc-command-supports-the-q-o.patch) but in that
case it's probably easier to drop the dependency altogether (which is
what upstream plans to do).

> 2) libvirt-bin still calls /bin/nc, but the need for netcat-openbsd
>    should be documented at least in the README.Debian, something like

Applied, thanks. I'll leave the bug open though since improving the
error message is still a good idea.
Cheers,
 -- Guido






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