Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19

Anthony Liguori
2010-10-21T13:09:47Z

Hi Andrew,

On 10/21/2010 05:22 AM, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>
> Hello from the Matahari tech-lead...
> Is there any documentation on the capabilities provided guest agent
> Anthony is creating? Perhaps we can combine efforts.

Mike should be posting today or tomorrow.

> Also happy to provide more information on Matahari if anyone is
> interested.

I'd really like to hear more about Matahari's long term vision.

For a QEMU guest agent, we need something that is very portable. The
interfaces it provides need to be reasonably guest agnostic and we need
to support a wide range of guests including Windows, Linux, *BSD, etc.

From the little bit I've read about Matahari, it seems to be pretty
specific and pretty oriented towards Fedora-like distributions. It
exposes interfaces for manipulation of RPM packages, relies on netcf, etc.

There's nothing wrong with this if the goal of Matahari is to provide a
robust agent for Fedora-based Linux distributions but I don't think it
meets the requirements of a QEMU guest agent.

I don't think we can overly optimize for one Linux distribution either
so a mentality of letting other platforms contribute their own support
probably won't work.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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