[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#540749: Bug#540749: virt-manager: how do we enhance interoperability

[Guido Günther]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:30:12PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> The current version of virt-manager in Debian, when connecting to a
> Fedora 11 KVM VM, gives a very mis-leading error message.          
> Attached screenshot with this bug report explains it.              
> 
> How does one mitigate such problems?
> All distributions almost share the same common codebase but still can't
> guarantee interoperability.                                            
> 
> In this case, the version of netcat shipped in Debian supports "-q",
> where as the version in Fedora doesn't.                             
> I know I'm using testing/squeeze and this might be expected, but then
> how do we fix it. Is there any LSB compliance by the distributions ? 
Netcat seems to become more and more of a problem in
libvirt/virt-manager. Different distros do use quiet different versions.
Not having "-q" makes connections hang (not terminate) on Debian so it
seems we have to jump through loops to figure out the right netcat.
Cheers,
 -- Guido