From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: "dlaor@redhat.com" <dlaor@redhat.com>,
Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:45:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CBFEF95.9060703@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9DABD2D4-389E-4D05-8A4C-2DE1E20D3B5C@suse.de>
On 10/21/2010 03:14 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> I agree that some agent code for basic stuff like live snapshot
>> sync with the filesystem is small enough and worth to host within
>> qemu. Maybe we do need more than one project?
>
> No, please. That's exactly what I don't want to see. The
> libvirt/qemu/virt-man split is killing us already. How is this going
> to become with 20 driver packs for the guest?
Agreed. Not relying on Mata Hari and reinventing a dbus/WMI interface
would be yet another case of QEMU NIH. The same argument also works on
the backend BTW, it can be virtio serial but also a Xen pvconsole and
that wheel should not be reinvented either.
The guest agent should be a pluggable architecture, and QEMU can provide
plugins for sync, spice, "info balloon" and everything else it needs.
Paolo
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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"dlaor@redhat.com" <dlaor@redhat.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:45:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CBFEF95.9060703@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9DABD2D4-389E-4D05-8A4C-2DE1E20D3B5C@suse.de>
On 10/21/2010 03:14 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> I agree that some agent code for basic stuff like live snapshot
>> sync with the filesystem is small enough and worth to host within
>> qemu. Maybe we do need more than one project?
>
> No, please. That's exactly what I don't want to see. The
> libvirt/qemu/virt-man split is killing us already. How is this going
> to become with 20 driver packs for the guest?
Agreed. Not relying on Mata Hari and reinventing a dbus/WMI interface
would be yet another case of QEMU NIH. The same argument also works on
the backend BTW, it can be virtio serial but also a Xen pvconsole and
that wheel should not be reinvented either.
The guest agent should be a pluggable architecture, and QEMU can provide
plugins for sync, spice, "info balloon" and everything else it needs.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-21 7:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-19 15:14 KVM call minutes for Oct 19 Chris Wright
2010-10-19 15:14 ` [Qemu-devel] " Chris Wright
2010-10-20 8:21 ` Alexander Graf
2010-10-20 8:21 ` Alexander Graf
2010-10-20 8:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-10-20 8:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-10-20 8:30 ` Alexander Graf
2010-10-20 8:30 ` Alexander Graf
2010-10-20 10:47 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-20 10:47 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-20 12:16 ` Dor Laor
2010-10-20 12:16 ` Dor Laor
2010-10-21 10:22 ` Andrew Beekhof
2010-10-21 10:22 ` Andrew Beekhof
2010-10-21 10:26 ` Dor Laor
2010-10-21 10:26 ` Dor Laor
2010-10-21 13:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-21 13:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-21 13:18 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-10-21 13:18 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-10-21 13:32 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-21 13:32 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-21 15:43 ` Andrew Beekhof
2010-10-21 15:43 ` Andrew Beekhof
2010-10-21 16:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-21 16:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-21 16:37 ` Chris Wright
2010-10-21 16:37 ` Chris Wright
2010-10-21 19:47 ` Andrew Beekhof
2010-10-20 13:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-20 13:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-20 13:19 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-10-20 13:19 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-10-20 13:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-20 13:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-20 22:46 ` Dor Laor
2010-10-20 22:46 ` Dor Laor
2010-10-21 1:14 ` Alexander Graf
2010-10-21 1:14 ` Alexander Graf
2010-10-21 7:45 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2010-10-21 7:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-10-21 13:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-21 13:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-21 13:05 ` Dor Laor
2010-10-21 13:05 ` Dor Laor
2010-10-22 17:29 ` Chris Wright
2010-10-22 17:29 ` Chris Wright
2010-10-22 17:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-22 17:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-22 18:20 ` Chris Wright
2010-10-22 18:20 ` Chris Wright
2010-10-22 18:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-22 18:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-23 0:06 ` Chris Wright
2010-10-23 0:06 ` Chris Wright
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