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
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