[libvirt] Support for passing arbitrary qemu/kvm admin console commands?
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Tue Jun 3 08:06:46 UTC 2008
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 07:47:52PM -0500, Charles Duffy wrote:
> I'm looking at building a framework which makes use of KVM's
> pseudo-migration support for snapshot management. To my knowledge, this
> functionality is not presently available through libvirt.
>
> Is it possible to send arbitrary qemu/kvm admin console commands to a VM
> started and controlled by libvirt, or does any requirement for funtionality
> not presently exposed through libvirt conflict with its use?
We'd really like you to send commands via libvirt.
Which commands in particular do you want to send? I have an
outstanding patch [1] to support KVM migration which just needs much
more testing. Perhaps it does what you need already?
Rich.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-May/msg00276.html
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