[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] Re: Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/25/2010 03:26 AM, Vincent Hanquez wrote:
> On 24/03/10 21:40, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> If so, what C clients you expected beyond libvirt?
>>
>> Users want a C API.  I don't agree that libvirt is the only C 
>> interface consumer out there.
>
> (I've seen this written too many times ...)
> How do you know that ? did you do a poll or something where *actual* 
> users vote/tell ?
>
> From my point of view, i wouldn't want to write a high level 
> management toolstack in C, specially
> since the API is well defined JSON which is easily available in all 
> high level language out there.

There's a whole world of C based management toolstacks (CIM).

Regards,

Anthony Liguori