On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:38:51PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote: > Hello, > > since qemu's commit v1.4.0-736-gf17c90b [1]: > nbd: Keep hostname and port separate > > * literal IPv6 addresses no longer work in nbd URIs, because getaddrinfo is > called with the surrounding brackets: > $ qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=nbd://[::1]:1234/quack > qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=nbd://[::1]:1234/quack: address resolution > failed for [::1]:1234: Name or service not known > > * hostnames starting with a digit now work in nbd URIs. > Before that, or with the non-URI syntax, they fail because inet_parse assumes > them to be literal IPv4 addresses: > $ qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=nbd:123flour:1234:exportname=gashunk > qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=nbd:123flour:1234:exportname=gashunk: error > parsing IPv4 address '123flour:1234' > > > In libvirt, we use the URI format on the command line only if the host > contains ':', so hostnames starting with a digit still don't work. > > Migration with NBD and a literal IPv6 address doesn't work either, but that's > purely libvirt's fault, as we don't escape it with brackets. I've just posted > a patch for that. [2] > > Jan > > [1] http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=f17c90b > [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-May/msg02022.html CCing Kevin who authored v1.4.0-736-gf17c90b. Stefan -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list