Re: [Libvir] [RFC] Life-cycle Management of the domain take2

> I think that would be a waste because we would miss an opportunity to get > new customers. I personally want to support the guest was created by non-libvirt > app too. That is almost correct. We do support management of guests that were created by non-libvirt based applictions - if the config options they used are capable of being expressed in terms of libvirt XML. Now there are certainly a number of Xen configuration options that we don't currently support in libvirt. We've perhaps got the 75% common case that people use. I don't think we'll ever get 100% because there are some things that are really very Xen specific, but that shouldn't stop us aiming to improve our coverage. There's plenty of scope for more work to let us deal with 95%+ of the Xen config options. IMHO, not hitting the remaining few % is a worthwhile tradeoff given the huge benefits of having a config representation which isn't tied to Xen, particularly if that remaining 5% is the type of niche edge case config rarely used.

As always, I'd welcome suggestions & patches for representing more of the Xen config options in the generic XML format. The obvious big outstanding areas we've currently got are, USB (we've already agreed on format, now just need to implement it), serial/parallel devices (cf other thread suggesting a way to represent it), sound devices (no suggestions yet, but several end-user feature requests).