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Re: [Qemu-devel] block/ssh:Allow blockdev-add for ssh


From: Richard W.M. Jones
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] block/ssh:Allow blockdev-add for ssh
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 09:07:47 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10)

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 01:05:48PM +0530, Ashijeet Acharya wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was trying to convert SSH driver to support 'blockdev-add' and so
> far I have tried to figure out what the struct 'BlockdevOptionsSsh' in
> block-core.json should look like,
> 
> { 'struct': 'BlockdevOptionsSsh',
>   'data': { 'tcp': 'InetSocketAddress',
>              'path': 'str' } }
> 
> Naive question but I have to ask, Am I missing something?
> 
> As far as I know, ssh only supports 'tcp' right? So using
> 'InetSocketAddress' should be good enough. (like the TODO says)
> 
> I had a discussion with Kevin about this and he thinks, maybe
> 'SocketAddress' can be used too because the restriction comes from the
> qemu block driver rather than the backend. He advised me to get an
> opinion on this one from the maintainers of SSH.

I have no idea.

Rich.

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