DM> I am still a little fuzzy on network booting a paravirt guest, but DM> I believe the details will come out as we get a bit further. I would imagine it would be done via some cheating in dom0, which would fake the PXE client action, download the kernel and ramdisk as specified and then launch the guest out of body (i.e. without a bootloader). DM> This is what I had come to understand. As we get a little farther DM> we will make some proposals and see how the rest of the community DM> feels about them. Basically, I see a need for some sort of DM> marriage between Libvirt-CIM and possible the sblim data-gatherer. DM> Libvirt-CIM may need to gather the guest data from the host, but DM> feed it to the sblim data-gatherer for consumption. This will DM> take a bit more thought though. Dan suggested something similar. I'm not really familiar with either (a) the implementation of the data gatherer or (b) the profiles and classes needed to support metrics for a CIM client. Regarding the former, I would hope that the modules in the data gatherer can be loaded as dynamic plugins, which would mean that we could implement and maintain a data gatherer plugin in the libvirt-cim tree, and "marry" it to some of our other infrastructure. We would install it in the proper location on a system when libvirt-cim is installed, and the data gatherer would start to expose those bits. Regarding the latter, we could just implement the metrics ourselves as regular providers and not be dependent on the data gatherer at all. As always, I'd be hesitant to do something other than use a pre-existing framework for something like that, so we'd need to come up with a good justification for going this route. DM> One more question. Daniel Veillard mentioned someone may be DM> working on VM cloning capability. Do you know any details about DM> it or who might be working on it? I'm not sure what you mean exactly, which probably means my answer to your question is "no" :)... However, you should probably ask the libvirt mailing list[1]. Thanks! 1: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list -- Dan Smith IBM Linux Technology Center email: danms@us.ibm.com