Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] ssh: switch from libssh2 to libssh

[Pino Toscano]

On Friday, 21 October 2016 13:02:21 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 01:16:11PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > Rewrite the implementation of the ssh block driver to use libssh instead
> > of libssh2.  The libssh library has various advantages over libssh2:
> > - easier API for authentication (for example for using ssh-agent)
> > - easier API for known_hosts handling
> > - supports newer types of keys in known_hosts
> > 
> > Kerberos authentication can be enabled once the libssh bug for it [1] is
> > fixed.
> > 
> > The development version of libssh (i.e. the future 0.8.x) supports
> > fsync, so reuse the build time check for this.
> > 
> > [1] https://red.libssh.org/issues/242
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pino Toscano <address@hidden>
> > ---
> > 
> > Changes from v1:
> > - fixed jumbo packets writing
> > - fixed missing 'err' assignment
> > - fixed commit message
> 
> This version works, but I also switched from using a remote server to
> using this over localhost.

Could you please give it a try with the remote server case as well?

> It seems as if the timeout might be a bit short.  Could that be made
> controllable?  Or increased to match whatever libssh2 was using?

Which timeout are you referring to?

Thanks,
-- 
Pino Toscano

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