Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Emit domain events for all virtio-serial channels

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:27:07AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:18:00 +0000, Daniel Berrange wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:13:19AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 15:48:35 -0500, Matt Broadstone wrote: > > > > Presently domain events are emitted for the "agent lifecycle" which > > > > is a specialization on virtio-serial events specific to the channel > > > > named "org.qemu.guest_agent.0". This patch adds a generic event for > > > > "channel lifecycles", which emit state change events for all > > > > attached channels. > > > > --- > > [...]

These events are not solely useful for knowing when to connect to the channel. An application which relies on the QEMU guest agent because of the libvirt API calls it makes, may wish to know when the guest agent is running, so it can avoid making libvirt APIs that use it. eg, the app can disable the ability to quiesce filesystems until it sees the event that the agent is running. So I don't really see the guest agent as so special that we must not allow these events to be seen by apps - it just creates extra work for apps to force them to pointlessly register two event callbacks.