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

[i iordanov]

Hi Christophe,

I hope this is not too much to ask, but would it be possible for OvirtProxy
to have a ca-cert-file property as well as a ca-cert property? This way,
supporting the spice-ca-file option as well as the existing aSPICE
functionality will be much easier.

Thanks!
iordan


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:09 PM, i iordanov <iiordanov at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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