[Libguestfs] Plan for libguestfs 1.28

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:40:03AM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote:
> HI, Richard
> 
> Is there any plan to make daemon to directly run on the hypervisor,
> not starting a guest? e.g. directly export a guest image to be a block
> device on the hypervisor?

Not in 1.28, but adding lxc:// support to the libvirt backend
(src/launch-libvirt.c) would be fairly easy.

It's an idea that has been kicked around before on the list, eg:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2014-January/msg00296.html

Rich.

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