[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#688778: Bug#688778: /usr/bin/virsh: vbox:///session uri undocumented

Michal Suchanek michal.suchanek at ruk.cuni.cz
Wed Sep 26 09:18:58 UTC 2012


Excerpts from Guido Günther's message of Wed Sep 26 08:21:06 +0200 2012:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 06:08:06PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > Package: libvirt-bin
> > Version: 0.10.1-2
> > Severity: normal
> > File: /usr/bin/virsh
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > vbox:///session is the default uri in virsh but it is not documented in
> > the man page.
> 
> Because it isn't (from the manpage):
> 
> LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI
>            The hypervisor to connect to by default. Set this to a URI, in the same format as accepted by the connect option. This overrides the default URI set in any client config file and
>            prevents libvirt from probing for drivers.
> 
> So libvirt is autoprobing by default. I agree that this could probably
> be documented more prominently.

And it autoprobes an uri which is not listed as a supported uri in the
man page.

Thanks

Michal



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