From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:21:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CBEECE6.8030605@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101020131925.GH15143@redhat.com>
On 10/20/2010 08:19 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The thinking with Matahari is that there is significant overlap between
> agent requirements for a physical and virtual host, so it aims to provide
> an agent that works everywhere, whether virtualized or not. All that need
> change is the communication transport (TCP vs VirtIO Serial vs legacy
> serial vs some other data channel), and enable/disable certain agent
> services according to deployment scenario. Once you go to a more general
> purpose agent in this way, then it doesn't make such sense to put it all
> in the QEMU tree.
>
Actually, I don't think we want to have a common agent for physical and
virtual systems.
The requirements are actually very different. The virtual agent exists
solely to support hypervisor functionality. Not to provide general
purpose system management support.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-20 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-19 15:14 [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19 Chris Wright
2010-10-20 8:21 ` Alexander Graf
2010-10-20 8:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-10-20 8:30 ` Alexander Graf
2010-10-20 10:47 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-20 12:16 ` Dor Laor
2010-10-21 10:22 ` Andrew Beekhof
2010-10-21 10:26 ` Dor Laor
2010-10-21 13:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-21 13:18 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-10-21 13:32 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-21 15:43 ` Andrew Beekhof
2010-10-21 16:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-21 16:37 ` Chris Wright
2010-10-21 19:47 ` Andrew Beekhof
2010-10-20 13:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-20 13:19 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-10-20 13:21 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2010-10-20 22:46 ` Dor Laor
2010-10-21 1:14 ` Alexander Graf
2010-10-21 7:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-10-21 13:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-21 13:05 ` Dor Laor
2010-10-22 17:29 ` Chris Wright
2010-10-22 17:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-22 18:20 ` Chris Wright
2010-10-22 18:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-23 0:06 ` Chris Wright
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