From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:45:25 +0200 Message-ID: <4CBFEF95.9060703@redhat.com> References: <20101019151441.GA24673@x200.localdomain> <4DE00079-05FA-40DF-9EA5-9573AD745117@suse.de> <4CBEE84F.7060207@codemonkey.ws> <20101020131925.GH15143@redhat.com> <4CBEECE6.8030605@codemonkey.ws> <4CBF7154.2070304@redhat.com> <9DABD2D4-389E-4D05-8A4C-2DE1E20D3B5C@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "dlaor@redhat.com" , Anthony Liguori , "Daniel P. Berrange" , Chris Wright , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" To: Alexander Graf Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:33636 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751671Ab0JUHp3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:45:29 -0400 Received: by fxm4 with SMTP id 4so3473535fxm.19 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:45:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9DABD2D4-389E-4D05-8A4C-2DE1E20D3B5C@suse.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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