Re: [libvirt] Out of band channels

A libvirt client can connect to libvirt on a remote host. However, on its own this doesn't give the client a usable level of access. The reason for this is that libvirt doesn't expose some critical management interfaces. For QEMU this amounts to pretty much anything provided directly by the QEMU process, including: * VNC console [1] * Any character device [2] I'm undecided as to whether access to underlying storage falls into this bucket. It would certainly be convenient in certain circumstances. This means, for example that I need out of band access to: * See a graphical console * Connect to a serial console * Connect to a guest channel As these are fairly fundamental operations, I wonder if there has been any thought towards creating tunnels over a libvirt connection. In the first instance, I think this would require a generic method to multiplex multiple streams over a single remote connection. This would obviously be a significant protocol change. Would a messaging protocol, AMQP for instance, be a good candidate here?