[libvirt] RFC: advertising graphics support (vnc, spice, sdl)

[Michal Privoznik]

On 19.10.2012 08:31, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> Currently consumers of libvirt's APIs must assume/attempt to define a
> VM that uses spice, vnc, or sdl without knowing if the actual
> hypervisor supports it. Obviously my discussion is very QEMU oriented
> but it would be good to leave expansion for the future. I was thinking

Indeed. I look at libvirt as (sane) superset of hypervisor's features.
Not their bare intersection.

> that under the <guest> element for the capabilities we can add
> something like:
> 
> <graphics>
>   <spice/>
>   <vnc/>
>   <sdl/>
> </graphics>
> 
> It would be at the same level as <arch> and <features>. But before I
> implemented this I wanted a sanity check if people think this is the
> best place or the best naming convention.
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Makes sense to me.

Michal