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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] wake-on-lan & IPMI implementation;
	real power-off and -no-shutdown
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:26:24 +0000
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Cc: =?utf-8?q?Fran=C3=A7ois?= Revol <revol@free.fr>

> Ideally this would evolve into supporting IPMI, which would allow
> managing VMs exactly like physical servers without concern, appart
> launching the actual process first.
> cf.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface
> http://openipmi.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Anyone interested in this ?
> Anyone tried already ?

TBH I don't really see the point.

This definitely seems like something that should be handled by your your 
mangement app (via libvirt, or whatever). i.e. have that implement whatever 
remote protocol you want, and just talk to qemu over the normal monitor 
interface.

Paul