[libvirt] libvirt URI for "UNIX abstract namespace"?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:01:24AM +0200, Philipp Hahn wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> while trying to reproduce a performance problem I had to fake 95 hosts with 300 VMs. My idea was to setup 95 users with each one running a session libvirtd. When adding them to our management system I had was troubled with finding the right libvirt URI, as the default session UNIX socket is in the "abstract ns", which has no file system representation. I solved that by explicitly starting the session libvirtds with a custom config only specifying a physical socket path:
>   for ((h=0;h<95;h+=1));do su -c "/usr/sbin/libvirtd -f <(echo "unix_sock_dir=\"/home/host$h/.libvirt\"") -d" "host$h";done
> 
> 1. is there a way to specify an libvirt URI using the abstract ns?

No, its not possible - that's one of the reasons why we stopped using
the abstract namespace for session sockets.

> 2. Does anybody know another/better way to simulate many hosts with many VMs?

Containers ? eg create a container for each VM host you want to simulate.

Daniel
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