Am 22.03.2010 23:06, schrieb Anthony Liguori: > On 03/22/2010 02:47 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> Having qemu enumerate guests one way or another is not a good idea IMO >> since it is focused on one guest and doesn't have a system-wide entity. > > There always needs to be a system wide entity. There are two ways to > enumerate instances from that system wide entity. You can centralize > the creation of instances and there by maintain an list of current > instances. You can also allow instances to be created in a > decentralized manner and provide a standard mechanism for instances to > register themselves with the system wide entity. > > IOW, it's the difference between asking libvirtd to exec(qemu) vs > allowing a user to exec(qemu) and having qemu connect to a well known > unix domain socket for libvirt to tell libvirtd that it exists. I think the latter is exactly what I would want for myself. I do see the advantages of having a central instance, but I really don't want to bother with libvirt configuration files or even GUIs just to get an ad-hoc VM up when I can simply run "qemu -hda hd.img -m 1024". Let alone that I usually want to have full control over qemu, including monitor access and small details available as command line options. I know that I'm not the average user with these requirements, but still I am one user and do have these requirements. If I could just install libvirt, continue using qemu as I always did and libvirt picked my VMs up for things like global enumeration, that would be more or less the optimal thing for me. Kevin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
