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
-- Andrew
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