[libvirt] libguestfs integration: rich disk access for libvirt applications

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:55:19PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> To put this all into one place:
> 
> (1) An ugly new libvirt API that runs febootstrap-supermin-helper to
> create the appliance.
> 
> (2) Modify guestfs_add_domain to launch a transient domain using
> virDomainCreate.  (Forget about the live case for the moment).
> 
> (3) A new libvirt API to open and forward a virtio-serial channel.
> This seems generally a useful thing.
> 
>   int virDomainOpenChannel(virStreamPtr, const char *channelid);
> 
> (4) libguestfs somehow has to access a virStreamPtr.  We can work this
> one out.
> 
> (5) libvirt will autoclose the domain for us when we close the
> virConnectPtr.

This all sounds like a good plan to aim for.


Daniel
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