[virt-tools-list] virt-manager/libvirt backwards compatibility problem?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 08:46:53PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:41:43AM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Apologies to those who may receive this twice. I posted this and a couple of
> > followups to libvirt-users last Monday with no response. Since it's a
> > question that straddles the interests of the two lists, I'm hoping I can do
> > better here. The basic question:
> > 
> > - It appears that virt-manager and virsh, if run on a system with libvirt
> >   0.9.x on it, cannot connect to systems whose libvirt is 0.8.x
> 
> We rewrote the remote layer in 0.9.3(?).  I know that at least one
> thing broke (TLS?) and was fixed shortly afterwards.  Can't find a
> link right now ...  Perhaps this rewrite and/or breakage is
> responsible?

It only broke error reporting in the event that the server rejected
the client certificate. I successfully connect to old server from
new client, and vica-verca both with & without TLS

Regards,
Daniel
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