Re: [netcf-devel] [libvirt] [RFC] Reporting host interface status/statistics via netcf/libvirt, and listing active vs. inactive interfaces
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 10:50 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
libvirt does not require that all functionality is present on
all platforms. So as long as an error is raised if the user
requests an unsupported configuration, we're fine. As for the
XML question, libvirt requires 100% backwards compatability so
its XML format is essentially "append" only, existing features
cannot be dropped/changed.
This is also the intent for netcf's XML (warning: neither the XML format
nor the API can be considered stable yet, but I hope that we get to that
point very soon)
As for backend differences, we definitely need to address them on a
case-by-case basis, weighing the headache of dealing with different
backends with different feature sets against the importance of that
feature.
David