Re: [libvirt] Notes from the KVM Forum relevant to libvirt

I was at the KVM Forum / LinuxCon last week and there were many interesting things discussed which are relevant to ongoing libvirt development. Here was the list that caught my attention. If I have missed any, fill in the gaps....  - Sandbox/container KVM.  The Solaris port of KVM puts QEMU inside   a zone so that an exploit of QEMU can't escape into the full OS.   Containers are Linux's parallel of Zones, and while not nearly as   secure yet, it would still be worth using more containers support   to confine QEMU.

 - Native KVM tool. The problem statement was that the QEMU code is too   big/complex & and command line args are too complex, so lets rewrite   from scratch to make the code small & CLI simple. They achieve this,   but of course primarily because they lack so many features compared   to QEMU. They had libvirt support as a bullet point on their preso,   but I'm not expecting it to replace the current QEMU KVM support in   the forseeable future, given its current level of features and the   size of its dev team compared to QEMU/KVM. They did have some fun   demos of booting using the host OS filesystem though. We can   actually do the same with regular KVM/libvirt but there's no nice   demo tool to show it off. I'm hoping to create one....