On 04/18/2011 08:16 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > What's a good way to ask if a libvirt connection is remote or not? > (Fundamentally I want to know if the disk images are openable as local > files, and I'm using "remote" as an proxy for this property.) > > One way might be to compare virConnectGetHostname with the local > hostname. This would fail if the client and server had the hostname > set incorrectly (eg. "localhost.localdomain"). > > Another way might be some hairy libvirt URL parsing. This is what we do in virt-manager, we just assume that presence of a hostname == remote. Granted that will incorrectly match qemu+ssh://localhost/system but I can't think of a valid use case for that besides testing. - Cole > > Another way would be to speculatively open the disk images. This > would fail if the client and server had guests with coincidentally > named disk images. > > Or I could write a qemu block driver that could use > virDomainBlockPeek. > > Rich. > -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list