[libvirt] RFC: remove qemu commandline parsing?

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Tue Apr 9 08:13:51 UTC 2019


On Mon, 2019-04-08 at 18:16 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
[...]
> I don't think it's
> debatable that the code is largely unused, and it hasn't seen many
> material improvements in the last 5 years, with zero plans to improve it
> on the horizon. It's 2000+ lines of text processing code living in every
> libvirtd instance. Deleting it all and making the qemu_driver.c APIs
> just return errors seems like an easy win considering we are trying to
> make libvirtd more modular and have a smaller footprint to facilitate
> usecases like kubevirt
> 
> Thoughts?

Yes please.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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