[fedora-virt] F12 feature: Host information

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Jun 16 16:08:15 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 02:40:34PM +0100, Anand Kumria wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:
> > I posted this page on the wiki last week, which is a feature we intend
> > to implement for Fedora 12:
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Hostinfo
> >
> > Any comments?
> 
> Thanks for the heads up.
> 
> My only comment is that generally hosts are already some kind of monitoring
> daemon (e.g. collectd) -- and this will mean they may have to end up running
> another.
> 
> If there one tht RHEL customers tend to run? If so, perhaps a plugin to that
> to extract the information would be simpler / less intrusive.

Good point, but there is certainly no standard for monitoring daemons.
Some will be running proprietary daemons.

> For the guest side, it sounds like you will be inventing a text based
> protocol to ask for statistical information about the host -- I just wonder
> if such a protocol already exists. And if there is already a client for
> that, then the guest side would just be the channel hookup, rather than any
> client dev.

I'm not aware of an existing protocol for that.  Does anyone
have any suggestions?

Rich.

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