[PATCH 0/6] Introduce OpenSSH authorized key file mgmt APIs

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 05:18:06PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 11/12/20 3:46 PM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> 
> > Saying that virDomainQemuAgentCommand is fully supported to be used
> > would free us from having to add arbitrary unextendable APIs for every
> > single guest agent API, but would still allow libvirt to use APIs we
> > need.
> 
> By saying that mgmt apps will need to learn json apart from xml. I'm not
> saying it's necessarily a bad thing - mgmt application is probably written
> in a language that already has a JSON library built in (golang, python).

You also loose the benefit of libvirt's API abstraction. If QEMU guest
agent is replaced by something different in future, a formal API in
libvirt insulates the apps from that difference, both within context of
a single hypervisor, and cross hypervisor.

Regards,
Daniel
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