Re: [libvirt] A laundry list of "TODO" items for libvirt

[David Lively <dlively virtualiron com>]

Does "host power support" belong on the TODO?
(i.e. virConnect{Poweroff,Suspend,Hibernate,Reboot}) 

If libvirt is going to be the only external interface used to manage a
virtualized host, it must be able to poweroff, suspend, (hibernate?),
and reboot the host.  (For hosts that support IPMI/iLO or other power
control interfaces, this isn't necessary, but there are plenty of hosts
that don't support any of this.)

Dave


On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:45 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> A bunch of us at Red Hat  had a bit of a brainstorming session to make a
> list of things we'd like to see added to libvirt going forward, to better
> support our needs for virtualization in Fedora / oVirt. We've put details
> of everything up on the libvirt wiki:
> 
>    http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Todo
> 
> This list isn't a firm commitment to actually implement these features.
> We may later decide that some of them don't belong in libvirt (eg, the
> question of allowing multiu-thread access to virConnectPtr is open to
> debate). Nor have we got people actually working on these items - unless
> explicitly noted against a todo item.  If anyone is looking to do work
> on libvirt and isn't sure of what to work on, this list may be of interest.
> 
> Also, this is a wiki, so feel free to add more ideas - or add expanded
> details to existing ideas. Or reply to this mail, and one of us will
> add new ideas to the wiki for you
> 
> The only request is that you don't actually start implementing things from
> the list without first discussing proposals on this list, because most of
> these ideas need more design / analysis before its reasonable to write 
> code
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel