Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Oct 19

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Hi Andrew,

On 10/21/2010 05:22 AM, Andrew Beekhof wrote:

Hello from the Matahari tech-lead...
Is there any documentation on the capabilities provided guest agent Anthony is creating? Perhaps we can combine efforts.

Mike should be posting today or tomorrow.

Also happy to provide more information on Matahari if anyone is interested.

I'd really like to hear more about Matahari's long term vision.

For a QEMU guest agent, we need something that is very portable. The interfaces it provides need to be reasonably guest agnostic and we need to support a wide range of guests including Windows, Linux, *BSD, etc.

From the little bit I've read about Matahari, it seems to be pretty specific and pretty oriented towards Fedora-like distributions. It exposes interfaces for manipulation of RPM packages, relies on netcf, etc.

There's nothing wrong with this if the goal of Matahari is to provide a robust agent for Fedora-based Linux distributions but I don't think it meets the requirements of a QEMU guest agent.

I don't think we can overly optimize for one Linux distribution either so a mentality of letting other platforms contribute their own support probably won't work.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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