On 1/26/26 12:04, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-138300
>
> This bug requires a further fix to allow libvirt to access ESXi
> servers over IPv6. The way that we constructed the URL (for fetching
> things from the SDK with curl) was wrong. We formed URLs like:
>
> https://1234:56:0:789a:bcde:72ff:fe0a:7baa:443/sdk
>
> but with IPv6 we need to put [...] around the IPv6 address.
>
> The first patch just adds some debugging so we can see what URLs we
> are passing to curl. THe second patch is a bit of abstraction so that
> we're only creating URLs in one place (but two functions). The third
> detects if the server name is an IPv6 address and adds the square
> brackets as appropriate.
>
> Tested by me, by connecting to an IPv6 VMware server and listing all
> the domains, and getting the libvirt XML of a single domain. I didn't
> test all possible operations in depth.
>
> The bug was reported by Ming Xie.
>
> Rich.
>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Michal