[libvirt] libvirt-qpid

[Daniel Veillard]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 04:57:45PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:54:28PM +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:14:12AM -0700, Ian Main wrote:
> > > > I'm just wondering if there is any DNS customization trick which would
> > > > allow the qpid client to automatically find the broker based on the DNS
> > > > settings (things like _qpid._tcp SRV entries in the local domain). That
> > > > would avoid the configuration on each monitored node.
> > > 
> > > Nice, glad you got it all working! :)
> > > 
> > > This is exactly how we do it in ovirt.. I posted a patch to use DNS
> > > SRV entries and it just sets up the libvirt-qpid sysconfig file on each boot.
> > 
> >   Trying to make sure I understand, there is no such support in the
> > upstream qpid but that's a patch carried just on Ovirt ?
> 
> It is not really a patch - it is just the way oVirt configures its managed
> node virtualization host at startup.
> 
> The managed node has a whole bunch of services running, of which libvirtqpid
> is just one. So, after networking comes up, oVirt queries the SRV records
> for all the services it cares about, and uses augeas to edit the config
> files to point to these services. 

  Ah, I was hoping some kind of standardization of lookup embedded in
the qpid library itself.

Daniel

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