[libvirt] Writing a new driver for libvirt

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:38:23AM -0700, Orr, David-P64407 wrote:
> Thanks for the response.  I will look that the functions that you have
> pointed out for the other drivers here and see how they would be
> implemented for ours.  Based on your description I think we would use a
> stateless driver, since there are external tools and configurations
> available.
> 
> To answer your question, it is actually a version of VMware Workstation
> with a Hypervisor added to it.  This is for our TVE product here at
> General Dynamics; here is a link to the product description:

In that case, I definitely agree that you should aim for a stateless
driver. VMWare has pre-existing config files / tools / APIs that can
be used for the libvirt driver.

> Another question, how mature is the CIM interface of libvirt.  I have
> not had much time to look at it yet, but we would be using it for remote
> management.

The libvirt-CIM work is very active - there's another mailing
list you could ask on, if they don't notice your questions here

   http://libvirt.org/CIM/
   https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-cim/

I know the people working on CIM have a good test suite that is
validating their work on a frequent basis against Xen and QEMU
libvirt drivers. This is described in their wiki pages

  http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Cimtest

Regards,
Daniel
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