[Spice-devel] oVirt support in aSPICE stalled due to broken network file I/O

[i iordanov]

Hi Christophe,

I read through some govirt code, and I think you're right that gvfs is only
used during the fetching of the certificate. If that's the case, I will
start by not fetching the CA automatically, but requiring for users to
provide it to aSPICE the same way as they have to provide it for a simple
SPICE connection (within the "Import CA" dialog in aSPICE, which is
analogous to the --spice-ca-file option in virt-viewer). I think this will
work for most if not all people.

Thanks again!
iordan



On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com>wrote:

> Hey Iordan,
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 01:11:45PM -0400, i iordanov wrote:
> > Hi Christophe,
> >
> > It is currently very hard, bordering on impossible to build gvfs for
> > Android, because it ends up depending on GTK. The sequence of
> > dependencies is:
> >
> > glib network I/O -> gvfs -> libsoup-gnome -> gnome-keyring -> gcr-3 ->
> > gcr-ui-3 -> GTK
> >
> > The glib guys are arguing that this is not a bug, since it's just a
> > dependency that's missing, but I am trying to convince them that the
> > low-level glib should not end up depending on a UI library...
> >
> > Hence for the moment, I absolutely cannot use glib network I/O. Can
> > you tell me, since you've written libgovirt, do you think it's
> > possible to add functionality to *it* rather than writing workarounds
> > for client software? I could work around this issue in aSPICE, but
> > that would not help for any other client on any other platform that
> > doesn't have GTK.
> >
> > Regardless of whether you do agree it's best if govirt either stopped
> > relying on glib network file I/O or had an option to use a different
> > method, what library would you say would be best suited to replace all
> > the network file I/O operations that you have in govirt with a
> > download -> local file I/O sequence? Libcurl comes to mind, but
> > perhaps libsoup is better suited for the purpose in your opinion?
>
> Could you try what I suggested in
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2013-September/014430.html
> ? I think gvfs is only used if you use the helpers to fetch the
> certificate, and the rest of the code is just doing calls into
> librest/libsoup which I think are not using gio/gvfs.
> If this is a correct, then I think it's not a big issue that you don't have
> gvfs on your platform. If it is, I'll have to look where/how it's used to
> figure out how to workaround this.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Christophe
>



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