From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NunRF-0008Uu-RO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:49:33 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60928 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NunRC-0008RR-FY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:49:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NunQt-0007fG-FU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:49:13 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:24100) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NunQt-0007f5-8N for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:49:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4BAB69C9.6080704@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:48:57 +0200 From: Avi Kivity 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> <4BAB5805.9080000@codemonkey.ws> <4BAB58F1.20401@redhat.com> <4BAB68A2.6020707@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4BAB68A2.6020707@codemonkey.ws> 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: Anthony Liguori Cc: "libvir-list@redhat.com" , Vincent Hanquez , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paul Brook , Luiz Capitulino On 03/25/2010 03:44 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 03/25/2010 07:37 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 03/25/2010 02:33 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>>> 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). >>> >> >> Gratefully I know very little about CIM, but isn't it language >> independent? >> >> The prominent open source implementation, pegasus, is written in C++. > > There is also SFCB which is written in C. Ok. > > But an awful lot of the providers for pegasus are written in C. But we're concerned with only one, the virt provider. None of the others will use libqemu? > The point is, C is a lowest common denominator and it's important to > support in a proper way. Problem is, it means horrible support for everyone else. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function