[Libguestfs] [PATCH 0/3] RFC: Allow use of external QEMU process with libguestfs

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 12:25:58PM -0400, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
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My only quibble about the API would be:

>    ><fs> sockpath /tmp/guest/sock

Can we reuse the existing path variable for this?

>    ><fs> launch
> 
> The temporary kernel/initrd from 'find-appliance' will be
> automatically deleted when the guestfs handle is closed.

Internally I think launch should delete the kernel/initrd (this is a
change from current behaviour too).  Nothing needs these after launch,
not even external qemus, because qemu loads them into the appliance
RAM.  By deleting them early there is more chance that we don't leave
these tmp files lying around.

> Instead of using 'find-appliance' an app can manually invoke
> the febootstrap-supermin-helper to build the initrd/kernel
> but is a fragile coupling to libguestfs internals. Thus it is
> preferable to let libguestfs locate & inform you of the kernel
> and initrd

Agreed.

Rich.

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