From 1df852e16a4967aeb0ceece633a35f79a4223a8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:00:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] news: add note about new virt-ssh-helper binary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé --- NEWS.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index e992fbe471..a46f442d91 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -32,6 +32,19 @@ v6.8.0 (unreleased) can now be passed using the ``passwd`` attribute on the ```` element. + * remote: ``virt-ssh-helper`` replaces ``nc`` for SSH tunnelling + + Libvirt now provides a ``virt-ssh-helper`` binary on the server + side. The libvirt remote client will use this binary for setting + up an SSH tunnelled connection to hosts. If not present, it will + transparently fallback to the traditional ``nc`` tunnel. The new + binary makes it possible for libvirt to transparently connect + across hosts even if libvirt is built with a different installation + prefix on the client vs server. It also enables remote access to + the unprivileged per-user libvirt daemons (e.g. using a URI such as + ``qemu+ssh://hostname/session``). The only requirement is that + ``virt-ssh-helper`` is present in ``$PATH`` of the remote host. + * **Improvements** * qemu: Allow migration over UNIX sockets