From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: VM id in KVM? Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:05:07 +0300 Message-ID: <46A48B63.2030202@qumranet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel To: Jun Koi Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Jun Koi wrote: > Hi, > > Do you think that it is necessary to have something like id for a > specific VM on KVM? Without it, how can we identify a VM? By qemu's > pid? Is that good, as we then depend on a particular device model? > From a Linux point of view, the pid identifies the VM. A management application can, however, use its own VM identifiers as it sees fit, and map the (possibly persistent, gloablly unique, and ridiculously long) VMID to the pid. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/