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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>, Ted Ross <tross@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Beekhof <abeekhof@redhat.com>, arroy@redhat.com, dlaor@redhat.com, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Perry N. Myers" <pmyers@redhat.com>, Michael D Roth <mdroth@us.ibm.com>

* Anthony Liguori (anthony@codemonkey.ws) wrote:
> So there's no doubt in my mind that if you need a way to inventory
> physical and virtual systems, something like Matahari becomes a very
> appealing option to do that.
> 
> But that's not the problem space I'm trying to tackle.
> 
> An example of the problem I'm trying to tackle is guest reboot.

Matahari already has shutdown and reboot methods.

Inventory, reboot, filesystem freeze, cut'n paste, etc.. all are
communicating between host and guest.  Main point is to consolidate
effort to keep from having some sprawl of agents (which agent do I
install to do reboot?).

thanks,
-chris