From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NumFR-0006MM-0l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:33:17 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51844 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NumFO-0006Jb-Sj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:33:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NumFN-0005ht-IW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:33:14 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f45.google.com ([74.125.83.45]:54014) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NumFN-0005hk-Fp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:33:13 -0400 Received: by gwb11 with SMTP id 11so2955119gwb.4 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:33:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BAB5805.9080000@codemonkey.ws> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:33:09 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt References: <4BA7C40C.2040505@codemonkey.ws> <20100323145105.GV16253@redhat.com> <4BA8D8A9.7090308@codemonkey.ws> <201003231557.19474.paul@codesourcery.com> <4BA8E6FC.9080207@codemonkey.ws> <4BA901B5.3020704@redhat.com> <4BA9A066.3070904@redhat.com> <20100324103643.GB624@redhat.com> <4BA9EC88.6000906@redhat.com> <20100324134250.38822113@redhat.com> <4BAA6CD9.6060001@redhat.com> <20100324171219.4365318b@redhat.com> <4BAA76EA.2060601@codemonkey.ws> <20100324182501.000b69a7@redhat.com> <4BAA86C2.4020701@codemonkey.ws> <4BAB1E21.8080009@snarc.org> In-Reply-To: <4BAB1E21.8080009@snarc.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Vincent Hanquez Cc: "libvir-list@redhat.com" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity , Paul Brook , Luiz Capitulino On 03/25/2010 03:26 AM, Vincent Hanquez wrote: > On 24/03/10 21:40, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> If so, what C clients you expected beyond libvirt? >> >> Users want a C API. I don't agree that libvirt is the only C >> interface consumer out there. > > (I've seen this written too many times ...) > How do you know that ? did you do a poll or something where *actual* > users vote/tell ? > > From my point of view, i wouldn't want to write a high level > management toolstack in C, specially > since the API is well defined JSON which is easily available in all > high level language out there. There's a whole world of C based management toolstacks (CIM). Regards, Anthony Liguori