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

2016-10-20 Thread Pino Toscano
On Thursday, 20 October 2016 18:04:34 CEST Stefan Weil wrote: > Am 20.10.2016 um 17:15 schrieb Pino Toscano: > > Rewrite the implementation of the ssh block driver to use libssh instead > > of libssh. The libssh library has various advantages over libssh: > > libssh instead of libssh? In both sen

Re: [Qemu-devel] [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. The

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

2016-10-20 Thread Stefan Weil
Am 20.10.2016 um 17:15 schrieb Pino Toscano: > Rewrite the implementation of the ssh block driver to use libssh instead > of libssh. The libssh library has various advantages over libssh: libssh instead of libssh? In both sentences a "2" is missing. Cygwin does not provide libssh for Mingw-w64,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [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 f

Re: [Qemu-devel] [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 known_

[Qemu-devel] [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 Kerberos