[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 11/11] QMP: Command-line flag to enable control mode

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 02:51:18PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/23/2009 02:44 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >>If libvirt "doesn't bother" about something useful, that's a libvirt
> >>bug.  It's wierd to have something controlled by two parallel management
> >>channels.
> >>     
> >
> >I think the libvirt policy is that things which are not generic enough
> >to be supported by>1 hypervisor are left alone.
> >   
> 
> That's a bit offtopic here, but it appears to me this dooms libvirt to 
> be useless in all but the most basic use cases.  Hypervisor writers try 
> to new features to differentiate their products, and forcing users off 
> libvirt in order to use them seems to be counterproductive.

libvirt is *not* restricted to 'lowest common denominator'. We are fine
with supporting features that are only supported in 1 hypervisor. Our
goal is to specify a generic representation of the feature, rather than
directly exposing the underlying syntax of the HV. 


Daniel
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