[libvirt] remote driver?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 12:29:16PM +0900, Jun Koi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am connecting to libvirtd with virsh using qemu:///system connection
> type. However, it seems virsh uses "remote" driver for all the action
> on the VM. So this means qemu:///system considers all the action is
> done "remotely" even if it is on the same physical machine?
> 
> I really expected that it uses "QEMU" driver, but that is not the
> case. So I wonder in which case "QEMU" driver is used?

The QEMU driver is what we call a 'stateful' driver, which means it only
lives within the libvirtd daemon, and applications communicate with the
QEMU driver indirectly via the 'remote' driver. 'remote' was probably
a bad name for this driver - its really just doing local RPC calls over
a UNIX domain socket and is very fast.  So the behaviour you see is
totally expected & nothing to worry about.

Regards,
Daniel
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