On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 08:45:48AM -0500, Jonathan Wright wrote: > Unfortunately I do need to use the address explicitly as opposed to > hostnames because the source of the data fed here is Ceph's monmap > which returns the addresses explicitly. > > I've tried all the common ways to escape the : in the v6 address to > no avail. I definitely agree that the problem looks to be it > parsing the colons as if the port comes next and then everything > after that is args. > > Should I file a bug report? There doesn't seem to be any way to > prevent the : from getting parsed incorrectly.
Is it a bug in qemu? Anyway yes if it's a bug please file a bug report about it. Rich. > On 3/30/19 2:50 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 06:17:17PM -0500, Jonathan Wright wrote: > >>I have scoured the web and can't find anything on the topic: Is IPv6 > >>supported for remote image targets? > >It definitely should work, although I don't know if anyone has tried > >using the address explicitly (rather than a hostname which resolves to > >an AAAA record). > > > >>For example: > >> > >>guestfish --format=raw --ro -a > >>rbd://[fd00::cefc:1]:6789/images/CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud-1901 > >> > >>Does not work citing the following: > >The important lines are these. Firstly guestfish parses the URL into > >an actual libguestfs API call, which looks fine to me: > > > >>libguestfs: trace: add_drive > >>"images/CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud-1901" "readonly:true" > >>"format:raw" "protocol:rbd" "server:tcp:[fd00::cefc:1]:6789" > >This is probably where it goes wrong: > > > >>"/tmp/libguestfs3pGMi6/overlay1.qcow2" "qcow2" -1 > >>"backingfile:rbd:images/CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud-1901:mon_host=[fd00::cefc:1]\:6789:auth_supported=none" > >>"backingformat:raw" > >>libguestfs: command: run: \ -o > >>backing_file=rbd:images/CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud-1901:mon_host=[fd00::cefc:1]\:6789:auth_supported=none,backing_fmt=raw > >>libguestfs: command: run: \ /tmp/libguestfs3pGMi6/overlay1.qcow2 > >>qemu-img: /tmp/libguestfs3pGMi6/overlay1.qcow2: invalid conf option > >>:cefc:1]:6789:auth_supported: No such file or directory > >>Could not open backing image to determine size. > >The code in libguestfs is supposed to turn the guestfs_add_drive > >‘servers’ parameter into a Ceph URL for qemu: > > > > > > https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/f79129b8dc92470e3a5597daf53c84038bd6859e/lib/qemu.c#L905 > > > >and I suppose this is being done wrong somehow (I don't have a Ceph > >server to test). > > > >At a guess I would say that it seems as if ':' characters must be > >quoted somehow (backslash?) because they are also used to separate the > >address and port number. > > > >Rich. > > > -- > Jonathan Wright > KnownHost, LLC > https://www.knownhost.com -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
