[Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 01:22:19AM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote:
> Yes, I am trying to run it in Xen Domain0. I thought that we can use
> Domain0 as a public libguestfs VM, This will avoid starting a new
> guest for virt-xxx every time, But Domain0 has no corresponding qemu
> task. So this way isn't available.
> Now, i am considering if we can run private VM for libguestfs which
> will keep running forever and if it will bring more trouble.

User-Mode Linux is also a possibility.  Slow but consistent
performance.  Unfortunately it lacks several important features
(notably qcow2 support).  The other unfortunate thing is that we
didn't support UML in 1.20 -- it was added in 1.24.

Rich.

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