[Libvir] PATCH 0/3: Refactor QEMU daemon
Daniel Veillard
veillard at redhat.com
Mon Jun 18 12:30:16 UTC 2007
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:02:02PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 05:32:45AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 10:48:17PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > The 3 patches which follow are work-in-progress to re-factor the QEMU
> > > daemon / driver to eventually adhere to the main libvirt internal driver
> > > API. Once this work is complete, there will only need to be a single
> > > daemon running which can provide both remote & QEMU capabilities at once
> > > with no QEMU specific code in it.
> >
> > Just to clarify, we will still need one process to be forked per QEmu
> > instance which is under control, right ?
>
>
> Yes to be clear. This is changing from a model where we have processes:
>
> libvirtd
> libvirt_qemud
> |
> +- qemu
> +- qemu
> +- dnsmasq
>
> To merge the two daemons so we have
>
> libvirtd
> |
> +- qemu
> +- qemu
> +- dnsmasq
>
> The single daemon serves as both the remote daemon & QEMU daemon all in
> one, with no need for QEMU specific code.
okay, what I though, but thanks for the explanation !
> > > This is following some of the ideas I set out here
> > >
> > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2007-May/msg00083.html
> >
> > yes this is teh right time to get this fixed !
>
> Yep, my primary motiviation is that we just broke QEMU protocol capability.
> So we should merge these daemons now to avoid having to break it a second
> time.
okay
Daniel
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