From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52520 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8utx-00061C-3p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:09:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8utv-0001Kn-MN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:09:48 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f173.google.com ([209.85.216.173]:38070) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8utv-0001KZ-K8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:09:47 -0400 Received: by qyl33 with SMTP id 33so2488644qyl.4 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CC03B98.9070709@codemonkey.ws> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:09:44 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19 References: <20101019151441.GA24673@x200.localdomain> <4DE00079-05FA-40DF-9EA5-9573AD745117@suse.de> <4CBEDD97.4010502@redhat.com> <4CC01456.50909@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4CC01456.50909@redhat.com> 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: Andrew Beekhof Cc: Chris Wright , Ted Ross , kvm@vger.kernel.org, arroy@redhat.com, dlaor@redhat.com, Alexander Graf , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Perry N. Myers" , Michael D Roth Hi Andrew, On 10/21/2010 05:22 AM, Andrew Beekhof wrote: > > Hello from the Matahari tech-lead... > Is there any documentation on the capabilities provided guest agent > Anthony is creating? Perhaps we can combine efforts. Mike should be posting today or tomorrow. > Also happy to provide more information on Matahari if anyone is > interested. I'd really like to hear more about Matahari's long term vision. For a QEMU guest agent, we need something that is very portable. The interfaces it provides need to be reasonably guest agnostic and we need to support a wide range of guests including Windows, Linux, *BSD, etc. From the little bit I've read about Matahari, it seems to be pretty specific and pretty oriented towards Fedora-like distributions. It exposes interfaces for manipulation of RPM packages, relies on netcf, etc. There's nothing wrong with this if the goal of Matahari is to provide a robust agent for Fedora-based Linux distributions but I don't think it meets the requirements of a QEMU guest agent. I don't think we can overly optimize for one Linux distribution either so a mentality of letting other platforms contribute their own support probably won't work. Regards, Anthony Liguori > -- Andrew > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html