Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] Re: Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt

On 03/25/2010 08:48 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> >> But an awful lot of the providers for pegasus are written in C. > > But we're concerned with only one, the virt provider. None of the > others will use libqemu? > >> The point is, C is a lowest common denominator and it's important to >> support in a proper way. > > Problem is, it means horrible support for everyone else. Why? We can provide a generic QMP dispatch interface that high level languages can use. Then they can do fancy dispatch, treat QErrors as exceptions, etc.