[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] Re: Libvirt debug API
Avi Kivity
avi at redhat.com
Mon Apr 26 13:53:13 UTC 2010
On 04/26/2010 04:46 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> (3) The system management application can certainly create whatever
>>> context it wants to launch a vm from. It's comes down to who's
>>> responsible for creating the context the guest runs under. I think
>>> doing that at the libvirt level takes away a ton of flexibility from
>>> the management application.
>>
>> If you want to push the flexibility slider all the way to the right
>> you get bare qemu. It exposes 100% of qemu capabilities. And it's
>> not so bad these days. But it's not something that can be remoted.
>
> As I mentioned earlier, remoting is not a very important use-case to me.
>
> Does RHEV-M actually use the remote libvirt interface? I assume it'll
> talk to vdsm via some protocol and vdsm will use the local libvirt API.
Yes.
> I suspect most uses of libvirt are actually local uses.
I expect the same, though I'm sure a design goal was to make use of
libvirt be reasonable through the remote API. If we aren't able to
fulfil it, much of the value of libvirt goes away.
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