Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi: allow blockdev-add for ssh

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 04:14:06PM +0530, Ashijeet Acharya wrote:
> Introduce new object 'BlockdevOptionsSsh' in qapi/block-core.json to
> support blockdev-add for SSH network protocol driver. Use only 'struct
> InetSocketAddress' since SSH only supports connection over TCP.
>  
> +##
> +# @BlockdevoptionsSsh
> +#
> +# @server:              host address and port number
> +#
> +# @path:                path to the image on the host
> +#
> +# @user:                user as which to connect
> +#
> +# @host_key_check       defines how and what to check the host key against
> +#
> +# Since 2.8
> +##
> +{ 'struct': 'BlockdevoptionsSsh',
> +  'data': { 'server': 'InetSocketAddress',
> +            'path': 'str',
> +            'user': 'str',
> +            'host_key_check': 'str' } }
> +

This certainly reflects the current ssh settings.

If you really wanted to get into the down-and-dirty details, then
host_key_check has some structure.  "yes", "no", "sha1:..." and
others.  But probably we don't want all of that in the JSON.

Rich.

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