Re: [libvirt] [RFC] exporting KVM host power saving capabilities through libvirt
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:05:21PM +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
* Dave Allan <dallan(a)redhat.com> [2011-07-01 16:56:29]:
> > libvirt has virConnectGetCapabilities() that would export an XML file
> > describing the capabilities of the host platform and guest features.
> >
> > KVM hypervisor's capability to support S3 can be exported as a host
> > feature in the XML as follows:
> >
> > <host>
> > <uuid>94a3492f-2635-2491-8c87-8de976fad119</uuid>
> > <cpu>
> > <arch>x86_64</arch>
> > <features> <<<=== New host feature fields
> > <S3/>
> > <S4/>
> > </features>
>
> Just my $.02, but calling it <features> seems to be confusingly close
> to the existing <feature> tag. Maybe <power_management> ?
Yes, I am open to naming the tag power_management. Any other similar
attributes that could be included here in future? Would calling it
power_management be very restrictive?
Urgh, busy week, sorry to be slow responding; I'd expect there will be
other features you'd want to describe, but they can have their own
tags.
Dave