[libvirt PATCH v3] tools: add virt-qemu-qmp-proxy for proxying QMP via libvirt QEMU guests

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Tue Dec 6 17:50:08 UTC 2022


On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 05:15:43PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 08:33:27AM -0800, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > It appears to me that the primary reason to want this (and now
> > virt-qemu-sev-validate) to be in a separate package is really the
> > dependency on Python, which we understandably don't want to become a
> > requirement for the existing libvirt-client package. So wouldn't
> > libvirt-client-python be a more accurate and future-proof name?
>
> That was one of the reasons, but the other was that these are just
> written as QEMU specific tools, and I wanted to separate them from
> the general purpose tools.
>
> > Suppose later we introduce a tool that's QEMU-specific but written in
> > C, or a tool that's not specific to any hypervisor driver but written
> > in Python. Where would those go?
>
> In libvirt-client-qemu and (a new) libvirt-client-python respectively

Okay, I'll stick to these names in Debian then. Thanks!

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization



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