On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 08/16/2010 01:15 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Aug 2010, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >> On 08/13/2010 02:53 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >>> On 08/12/2010 09:09 AM, stefano.stabell...@eu.citrix.com wrote: > >>>> From: Anthony PERARD<anthony.per...@citrix.com> > >>>> > >>>> Introduce functions to read and write the state of the VM in xenstore. > >>> > >>> This basically creates a new management interface for QEMU via the > >>> xenstore. > >>> > >>> Our management interface is QMP. If you want to maintain compatibility, > >>> you'll need to write a QMP -> xenstore daemon that maps events > >>> appropriately. > >> > >> This would belong in xl/libxl. > > > > Yes, but considering that we don't want a xenstore-based management > > interface I would gladly do without the compatibility daemon. > > We'll try to reduce all the xenstore interaction to the bare minimum, > > and use QMP everywhere else. > > Yes, I was just pointing out that you don't need a new compatibility > daemon. Since xl is already daemonizing itself to handle on_crash and > friends, it could also set up all the watches it cares about, and > convert them to QMP commands. It's all more code that needs to be > written of course, and boring stuff even. :)
Well yes, but after all you cannot write interesting code all the time :)
