On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:09:22AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 02:28:44PM +0900, Atsushi SAKAI wrote: > > Hi, Rich > > > > I have a question about SSH support of libvirt on Windows. > > Is there any reason for not supporting SSH. > > The initial problem is that to use SSH we fork/exec.... not gonna > work on Windows which has no concept of fork/exec. So at the very > least we'd need a completely separate branch of code to deal with > this on Windows. > > Co-incidentally I'm in the process of changing all code in libvirt which > uses fork/exec to make use of the 'virRun' and 'virExec' functions in > the util.c file. So if we could figure out an alternate impl of these > virRun & virExec functions for Windows, that'd make it easier to try > SSH support That's one place where looking at existing glib function can really help, they have gone over this kind of problems, and i assume found APIs they could make consistent across platforms. http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Spawning-Processes.html the APIs are a bit frightening though ... Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list