[libvirt] RFC: virt-console

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 07:50:02PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 07:35:56PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > --- /dev/null	2008-06-30 17:03:12.000000000 -0700
> > > +++ libvirt-new/src/virt-console.c	2008-06-30 16:58:36.079071463 -0700
> > 
> > I'd prefer to keep the source in  the 'console.c' file instead of renaming
> > it, just to make historical diff tracking a little easier.
> 
> Really? Surely even subversion can do cross-rename tracking OK?

We're using CVS for libvirt & yes it sucks :-)

> > I like the support for re-connecting after reboot. At the same time I
> > wonder if we need to make the an optional command line flag. Some apps
> > using virsh console, may rely on the fact that it exits when a VM 
> > shuts down. 
> 
> I hate --behave-like-you-should flags and will do everything I can to
> avoid them. Let's not inconvenience everybody for the sake of some
> possible breakage. The perils of people coding to human interfaces. (I
> wanted to make --verbose the default, like telnet, but that seemed much
> more likely to break someone's scripts).

I'm mostly concerned about 'virsh console' - we only need to keep
compatability for that. The standalone virt-console can have the
auto-track restarts syntax and we can recommend use for virt-console
as the primary tool, just having virsh console for compat.

Daniel
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