Re: Connecting to remote hypervisors?

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On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:29:15PM -0600, Nick Devito wrote:
> I might be overlooking something, but, I don't see anything on the
> libvirt site about it. Does libvirt support connecting to a remote
> hypervisor, if so, how? 

Unfortunately this isn't supported.

At this time, XenD does not provide a secure mechanism for connecting to it
remotely. While you can have XenD listen for TCP connections, however, there
are *zero* security checks made / authorization performed. It is not tenable
to support such an insecure connection mechanism via libvirt.

The good news is that the upstream Xen developers are aware that this is a
big problem, and in the XML-RPC protocol being developed for XenD, it appears
there will at least be some form of username/password authentication used
for remote TCP connections. Thus when the XML-RPC API for XenD is released we
will be able to more seriously look at allowing remote hypervisor connections
from libvirt.

Regards.
Dan.
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