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    remote: delete the avahi mDNS support · 5a148ce8
    Daniel P. Berrangé authored
    
    
    Libvirtd has long had integration with avahi for advertising libvirtd
    using mDNS when TCP/TLS listening is enabled. For a long time the
    virt-manager application had support for auto-detecting libvirtds
    on the local network using mDNS, but this was removed last year
    
      commit fc8f8d5d7e3ba80a0771df19cf20e84a05ed2422
      Author: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
      Date:   Sat Oct 6 20:55:31 2018 -0400
    
        connect: Drop avahi support
    
        Libvirtd can advertise itself over avahi. The feature is disabled by
        default though and in practice I hear of no one actually using it
        and frankly I don't think it's all that useful
    
        The 'Open Connection' wizard has a disproportionate amount of code
        devoted to this feature, but I don't think it's useful or worth
        maintaining, so let's drop it
    
    I've never heard of any other applications having support for using
    mDNS to detect libvirtd instances. Though it is theoretically possible
    something exists out there, it is clearly going to be a niche use case
    in the virt ecosystem as a whole.
    
    By removing avahi integration we can cut down the dependency chain for
    the basic libvirtd install and reduce our code maint burden.
    
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJán Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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