I finally had time to revisit this. It appears that not only did my patch not connect to the remote libvirtd storage driver (as Christian pointed out), but that the storage driver does not establish remote connections at all. As such, I agree with Christian that my patch is a dead-end and would also advise anyone finding this now to avoid applying it, even temporarily.
Has there been any forward movement on the other proposed solution?
I finally had time to revisit this. It appears that not only did my patch not connect to the remote libvirtd storage driver (as Christian pointed out), but that the storage driver does not establish remote connections at all. As such, I agree with Christian that my patch is a dead-end and would also advise anyone finding this now to avoid applying it, even temporarily.
Has there been any forward movement on the other proposed solution?