Re: Tracking KVM development

[Asdo <asdo@shiftmail.org>]

> I've looked at libvirt a bit, and I fail at seeing the attraction. I
> think I will stay with plain qemu-kvm, unless there are some very
> compelling reasons for going down the libvirt route.
>   

Virsh (uses libvirt) is almost irreplaceable for us...
How do you start and stop virtual machines easily, get a list of the 
running ones... How do you ensure a virtual machine is never started 
twice? (would obviously have disastrous results on the filesystem) How 
do you connect on-demand to the graphics of the VM from your laptop, 
with a good security so that only the system administrator can do that? 
(virt-viewer provides very easy support for this, tunnelling VNC 
graphics over SSH, you connect by specifying the name of the host and 
the name of the VM... just great!)

If there is another way I'm interested, in fact libvirt also brings 
problems to us mainly because it takes a while to support latest KVM 
features, and also installing libvirt from source and configuring it 
properly for the host first time is much more difficult than for KVM 
sources.

Thank you