From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: libvirt-users <libvirt-users@redhat.com>,
Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel@gmail.com>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt-users] Using virsh to load scripts for the guest machine
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:17:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5019B8F7.8080600@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vch2soy6.fsf@codemonkey.ws>
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On 08/01/2012 07:48 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> Basic one would be in case a machine has been paused for a long
>>> time. You know as in "hey, you lazy vm! You have been sleeping for two
>>> weeks! Now your clock is way off and poor ntp can't sync it back. So,
>>> here's current date!"
>>
>> That is something that fits better through qemu-ga, but no one has
>> implemented it yet (cc'ing qemu-devel in case I'm misrepresenting
>> things). Of course, if we did have a qemu-ga command for pushing the
>> current time into the guest, then libvirt could usefully expose an API
>> to wrap that qemu-ga command.
>
> Could you setup a wiki page on qemu.org with a list of qemu-ga
> commands that libvirt would like?
I gave it a shot (feel free to improve it)
http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/GuestAgent/UsefulCommands
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Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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