[libvirt] [PATCH libguestfs 0/4] Add a libvirt backend to libguestfs.

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Sun Jul 22 08:43:04 UTC 2012


On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 08:20:45PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> This preliminary patch series adds a libvirt backend to libguestfs.
> It's for review only because although it launches the guest OK, there
> are some missing features that need to be implemented.

I did some appliance boot timings of libvirt vs direct qemu boot from
libguestfs, and essentially libvirt makes no measurable difference,
which is all good news.

I'm going to push my current libvirt backend upstream in libguestfs
1.19.23.  It includes a number of fixes over the posted patches.

Rich.

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