From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G40ZN-0007Km-O7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:21:53 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G40ZM-0007Ka-RA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:21:53 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G40ZM-0007KX-J8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:21:52 -0400 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G40Zp-0003tR-UF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:22:22 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G40ZB-0007no-8R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:21:41 +0200 Received: from cpe-70-116-9-243.austin.res.rr.com ([70.116.9.243]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:21:41 +0200 Received: from anthony by cpe-70-116-9-243.austin.res.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:21:41 +0200 From: Anthony Liguori Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:21:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <44C11ED6.3090006@opensourcedemo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: news Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU GUI-Frontend based on Libvert API Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:37:10 -0400, Evan Paul wrote: > > The libVirt project is a community-sponsored project that aims to bring > more simplicity and standards to the Linux VM world. At its core, > libVirt is a C toolkit that provides interaction with virtualization > capabilities of the Linux operating system (and those related to Linux). You make it sound so professional :-) > Currently, there is a project called Virt-Manager that is building a > GUI-Frontend using the LibVirt API. More info on the Virt-Manager > project can be found here: > http://people.redhat.com/berrange/virt-manager/ > > For me, I personally like the idea and focus of libVirt project and > would like to see if any QEMU developers from the list would have an > interest to team up with me to develop an open source GUI-Frontend based > on the LibVirt API. Why would you create a second GUI interface when virt-manager already exists as a libvirt GUI front-end? As far as I know, the big hurdle for QEMU and libvirt right now is not any GUI aspects (VNC would work just fine). It's interacting with QEMU. Xen provides an XML-RPC interface to managing instances whereas QEMU only really provides the monitor interface. Of course, there's still a bit of work to do before libvirt uses actually uses that interface (it currently uses the older S-Expression/HTTP interface). Basically, there's quite a bit of work to do in libvirt before you could even start writing a GUI for QEMU. I have toyed around with the idea of writing an XML-RPC front-end to QEMU (with the idea of bridging the gap for libvirt). DV also had a patch floating around to add a socket management interface to QEMU (although now there is a TCP character device so I presume his patch is unnecessary). My first cut at an XML-RPC front-end for QEMU: http://hg.codemonkey.ws/qemu-rpcd/ Regards, Anthony Liguori