From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWI0u-0007XU-VB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:48:17 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWI0t-0007U5-CC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:48:16 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53008 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWI0t-0007Th-3H for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:48:15 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:38133) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KWI0s-0007i2-7h for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:48:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:48:06 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/13] set vnc password from xenstore. Message-ID: <20080821214806.GJ1531@redhat.com> References: <1219336054-15919-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <1219336054-15919-13-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <48ADCCA2.8050201@codemonkey.ws> <20080821201955.GG1531@redhat.com> <48ADCE91.2070602@codemonkey.ws> <48ADDF71.5040209@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48ADDF71.5040209@redhat.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:34:41PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > > If there are reasons that Xend doesn't want to interact with the monitor > > (for instance, if you want to support monitor redirection), we can > > certainly discuss how to enhance the monitor (like having multiple > > monitor instances). > > Multiple monitor instances would be very useful anyway. > > Right now there is no way to use the monitor for libvirt-managed qemu > instances because libvirt uses the monitor. Being able to both use > libvirt *and* have a monitor prompt to type commands would be great. I disagree - that means you'll no longer be able to trust what libvirt tells you about the VM, and libvirt won't have a guarenteed consistent view of the VM's state because things will be changed behind its back. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|