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

2016-10-20 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 05:44:41PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > On Thursday, 20 October 2016 16:32:50 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 05:15:24PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > > > Rewrite the implementation of the ssh block driver to use libssh instead > > > of libssh.

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

2016-10-20 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 05:15:24PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > Rewrite the implementation of the ssh block driver to use libssh instead > of libssh. The libssh library has various advantages over libssh: > - easier API for authentication (for example for using ssh-agent) > - easier API for

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

2016-10-20 Thread Pino Toscano
On Thursday, 20 October 2016 16:32:50 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 05:15:24PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > > Rewrite the implementation of the ssh block driver to use libssh instead > > of libssh. The libssh library has various advantages over libssh: > > - easier API

[Qemu-block] [PATCH] ssh: switch from libssh2 to libssh

2016-10-20 Thread Pino Toscano
Rewrite the implementation of the ssh block driver to use libssh instead of libssh. The libssh library has various advantages over libssh: - easier API for authentication (for example for using ssh-agent) - easier API for known_hosts handling - supports newer types of keys in known_hosts