Re: [Libvir] XML format for QEMU / KVM driver

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:06:29PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > accelerated, with all the others just being software emulated. As per my > other reply to Jeremy, I felt <type> to be refering to the virtualization > strategy for the backend, and so implementation specific. For Xen world > we have 'linux' or 'hvm', while for QEMU world we have the different 'qemu' > 'kvm', 'kqemu' options. and 6 months from now people will start developping special paravirt drivers and kernel for KVM (those kernel guys won't resist shaving 5% of performances sooner or later :-) and then you will run a specific os type in a kvm <domain type="kvm"> <os> <type>linux</type> will then be just fine. But if we override the os/type value now with something which is not realated to the running os we will loose consistency later. Sorry I'm still disagreeing, I really prefer to see <domain type="qemu"> <domain type="kvm"> <domain type="kqemu"> and keep a generic value in <os> <type> as long as the actual OS is indifferent but still have provision to indicate a specific one there later if needed.