Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 1/3] block: Add support for Secure Shell (ssh) block device.

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 03:30:52PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Changes since v8:
> 
> - Implement the suggestions of Stefan Hajnoczi.
> 
> - Add host_key_check parameter, which you can use like this:
> 
>   ssh://[...]?host_key_check=no     # skip the check entirely
>   ssh://[...]?host_key_check=yes    # the default, uses known_hosts
> 
>   # or check for a specific host key fingerprint:
>   ssh://[...]?host_key_check=md5:<usual SSH host key fingerprint>
>   ssh://[...]?host_key_check=sha1:<SHA1 fingerprint>
> 
> Note that I cannot persuade OpenSSH to display the SHA1 fingerprint of
> a host key, so sha1: is not tested.
> 
> A possible extension to this would be to check for the exact key (not
> the fingerprint, which is just a hash of the key), although in this
> case the URI would be very long indeed, possibly longer than URIs are
> supposed to be in some cases.
> 
> Rich.

Thanks, applied to my block tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block

libssh2.git now includes fsync support so we can take the fsync patch.

Stefan