http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611023
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611023#c1
James Fehlig changed:
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--- Comment #1 from James Fehlig 2010-06-23 20:53:24 UTC ---
Ability of netcat to support IPv6 is not the issue. Problem is netcat in SuSE
does not support connecting to a Unix Domain Socket (the '-U' option). This
feature of Redhat netcat package (and as you found netcat-openbsd, and socat)
is needed by libvirt to do ssh tunneling. 'nc -U /path/to/libvirtd/uds' is
sent to remote host over ssh, allowing client to access remote libvirtd.
There is some history behind our use of socat - see bug#397633. I would gladly
drop the libvirt socat patch and use netcat-openbsd instead. We would no
longer be patching libvirt and more importantly, would no longer limit its
ability to connect to remote hosts. The socat approach prevents ssh tunneling
between a SuSE libvirt client and Redhat libvirt host and vice versa.
I'm a little concerned about the availability of netcat-openbsd. In 11.3, I
can only find it in the oss repo
(http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/). Is this repo
available to all 11.3 systems during install? If user selects virtualization
pattern, libvirt would be installed and the netcat-openbsd dependency must be
available.
On the SLE front, I would like to use netcat-openbsd as well. As mentioned,
socat causes interop issues. Marcus, would it be possible to have
netcat-openbsd in SLE as well? NB: For SLE, we couldn't make this change
until SLE11 SP2 at earliest I suspect. Perhaps not even until SLE12.
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