Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH v6 08/23] virtagent: add va.getfile RPC

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:08:09PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> You might as well reuse the libguestfs API here because you get the
> benefit of all the code that's been written, all the tools on top, and
> a far more comprehensive API that would take you another 2 years to
> implement.

To put it in some perspective, libguestfs is just shy of 500K lines of
code now, not including the tools built on top.  150 page manual just
for the core API.

Rich.

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