[Qemu-devel] Re: libvirt vs. in-qemu management

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 04/06/2010 03:28 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> Note things like network setup are a bottomless pit.  Pretty soon you
>> need to setup vlans and bonding etc.  If a user needs one of these and
>> qemud doesn't provide it, then qemud becomes useless to them.  But the
>> same problem applies to libvirt.
>>      
> If they are a bottomless pit then they are a bottomless pit. There's
> nothing we can do about it. This pit needs to be dug either way, whether
> it's in libvirt or in qemud.
>    

Agreed.  The only difference is who's doing the digging.

One way to avoid it is to have a rich plugin API so if some needs some 
to, say, set up traffic control on the interface, they can write a 
plugin to do that.

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