Installation guide

Transport modes
159
Name Transport mode Description Example usage
hostname, port
number, username and
extra parameters from
the remote URI, but in
certain very complex
cases it may be better
to supply the name
explicitly.
command ssh and ext The external
command. For ext
transport this is
required. For ssh the
default is ssh. The
PATH is searched for
the command.
command=/opt/
openssh/bin/ssh
socket unix and ssh The path to the UNIX
domain socket, which
overrides the default.
For ssh transport, this
is passed to the remote
netcat command (see
netcat).
socket=/opt/libvirt/run/
libvirt/libvirt-sock
netcat ssh The netcat command
can be used to connect
to remote systems.
The default netcat
parameter uses the
nc command. For
SSH transport, libvirt
constructs an SSH
command using the
form below:
command -p port [-l
username] hostname
netcat -U socket
The port, username
and hostname
parameters can be
specified as part of
the remote URI. The
command, netcat and
socket come from
other extra parameters.
netcat=/opt/netcat/bin/
nc
no_verify tls If set to a non-zero
value, this disables
client checks of the
server's certificate.
Note that to disable
no_verify=1