Re: [Libguestfs] [v2v PATCH] docs: highlight that "-ip" with vmx+ssh still requires user interaction

The functions "remote_file_exists" and "scp_from_remote_to_temporary" [input/parse_domain_from_vmx.ml] rely on "ssh" and "scp" shell commands, which intentionally only take a password from a tty. This means that for vmx+ssh, "-ip" is incomplete. Completing the feature would require a lot of work; we'd have to reimplement "remote_file_exists" and "scp_from_remote_to_temporary" in C, using libssh (an sftp session). For "remote_file_exists", we'd have to replace "test -f" with sftp_lstat(). For "scp_from_remote_to_temporary", we'd need to write an SFTP download loop. vmx+ssh is too niche for this, so let's just document the limitation. Extends: 784be60842d088596d7af938f90c689083677dca Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1854275 Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek(a)redhat.com&gt; --- docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod b/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod index f13861339034..599a45cbfb63 100644 --- a/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod +++ b/docs/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod @@ -139,6 +139,11 @@ virt-v2v server to the ESXi hypervisor. For example: $ ssh root(a)esxi.example.com [ logs straight into the shell, no password is requested ] +Note that support for non-interactive authentication via the I<-ip> +option is incomplete. Some operations remain that still require the +user to enter the password manually. Therefore ssh-agent is recommended +over the I<-ip> option. +