From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NuDNe-0003MC-D1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:19:26 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58187 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NuDNd-0003Lw-2M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:19:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NuDNb-00034c-BY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:19:24 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:46392) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NuDNb-00034X-57 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:19:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:19:20 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt Message-ID: <20100323231920.GC20130@shareable.org> References: <4BA7C40C.2040505@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Juan Quintela Cc: "libvir-list@redhat.com" , qemu-devel Juan Quintela wrote: > - monitor: I need a way to get to the monitor when going through > libvirt, in the past you couldn't allow this, but now it looks > possible. Now you can just start another monitor connection to qemu :-) Previously I've used a multiplexing script which accepts multiple monitor connections, and passes the commands to the real connection. It's not ideal because a slow command blocks any others, but it basically works. > - changing the emulator: It is normal for me to be using several qemu > binaries for testing, changing it with libvirt is just a mess. Same here, except not just for testing: I need to use different qemu binaries for production use, because newer ones don't work with some VM images that work on older ones. > - virt-viewer: I want to be able to switch consoles, period. A decent VNC client gets close to this. If the qemus advertised themselves, some VNC clients would show a list of them automatically. As it is, I use Gnome's VNC client with a bookmark for each VM, which works quite well. It even has tabs :-) > - networking: man, setting networking is a mess, libvirt just does it > for you. networking is often a mess, and what libvirt does isn't always what you want, even if it often is. I need the option to set up networking separately and have libvirt use what it's given, otherwise I cannot use it. -- Jamie