virt-manager/man
Cole Robinson 408a39a777 virt-manager: Switch to --no-fork by default
The reason we fork by default, is to force ssh to invoke
ssh-askpass when a password is required, rather than prompt on
 a terminal no one is looking at. There's a more thorough
explanation here:
https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/issues/731

With SSH_ASKPASS_REQUIRE=force, we now have a way to force ssh
to use askpass in the above scenario, when ssh and libvirt are new
enough.

The default forking behavior has caused maintenance pain in the
past, and is currently causing issues on macos:
https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/issues/620

Let's flip the default to `--no-fork`. The VIRT_MANAGER_DEFAULT_FORK
env variable is there as an escape hatch incase I really miscalculated.

I don't expect many people are depending on use of askpass either
way, or if they are, they are launching virt-manager from their
desktop and not a terminal, which already gives us the correct
behavior AFAICT>

My suspicion is barely anyone will notice, which is why
I'm ok with changing this now, despite the libvirt support being
brand new.

If this doesn't raise any issues, then we can eventually drop
the forking behavior all together.

Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
2024-11-12 23:12:36 +01:00
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virt-clone.rst man: Convert .pod files to .rst 2020-09-13 09:58:39 -04:00
virt-install.rst virt-install: add --network hostdev=HOSTDEV 2024-11-11 15:30:25 -05:00
virt-manager.rst virt-manager: Switch to --no-fork by default 2024-11-12 23:12:36 +01:00
virt-xml.rst virt-xml: Add --edit --convert-to-vnc 2024-10-09 11:03:43 +02:00