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To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: agl@linux.vnet.ibm.com, stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>, marcel.mittelstaedt@de.ibm.com, Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, ryanh@us.ibm.com, markus_mueller@de.ibm.com, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, abeekhof@redhat.com

   Hi,

>> It may not be so fundamental, but it still makes me wary. XMLRPC
>> handling is quite high level and introduces the potential of errors that
>> are outside of our direct control. Personally I don't see the big
>> benefit of having virtagent terminate in QEMU,
>
> Live migration. If it's a separate daemon, then live migration gets fugly.
>
> If xmlrpc-c is a PoS, then we ought to look at using something else.

Anyone looked at using json instead?  We already have a bunch of code 
for that thanks to QMP ...

cheers,
   Gerd