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From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: "libvir-list@redhat.com" <libvir-list@redhat.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:49:45 +0200
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 03/24/2010 06:42 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:42:16 +0200
> > Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com>  wrote:
> >
> >    
> >> So, at best qemud is a toy for people who are annoyed by libvirt.
> >>      
> >   Is the reason for doing this in qemu because libvirt is annoying?
> 
> Mostly.
> 
> > I don't see
> > how adding yet another layer/daemon is going to improve ours and user's life
> > (the same applies for libqemu).
> >    
> 
> libvirt becomes optional.

 I think it should only be optional if all you want is to run a single VM
in this case what seems to be missing on our side is a _real_ GUI, bundled
with QEMU potentially written in a high-level language.

 Then we make virt-manager optional and this is good because we can sync
features way faster and we don't have to care about _managing_ several
VMs, our world in terms of usability and maintainability is about one VM.

 IMVHO, everything else should be done by third-party tools like libvirt,
we just provide the means for it.