[libvirt] [libvirt-users] Please remove pm-utils dep from libvirt-clients

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Mon Aug 5 13:45:43 UTC 2013


On 05.08.2013 15:41, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 03:07:15PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> On 05.08.2013 14:46, Richard Hughes wrote:
>>> On 5 August 2013 12:15, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> What is the replacement ?  We need to be able to query whether
>>>> each of suspend, hibernate, or suspend-hybrid are supported on
>>>> a host, and then report that upto the mgmt app using libvirt.
>>>
>>> I think everything ported to the dbus methods like
>>> org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.CanSuspend(),
>>> org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.CanHibernate() etc. if you need to use
>>> shell you can use gdbus -- yell if you need a more concrete example.
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Richard
>>
>> I'd rather see libvirt dependent on pm-utils than dbus. Moreover, the
>> methods paths are not unified AFAIK. For instance, I'm using KDE and on
>> my system it's:
>>
>> org.freedesktop.UPower.HibernateAllowed()
>> org.freedesktop.UPower.SuspendAllowed()
>>
>> Paths you've provided don't exist at all on my system.
> 
> What distro are you using which doesn't have the org.freedesktop.login1
> DBus APIs ?
> 

gentoo without systemd.

Michal




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