Does "host power support" belong on the TODO? (i.e. virConnect{Poweroff,Suspend,Hibernate,Reboot}) If libvirt is going to be the only external interface used to manage a virtualized host, it must be able to poweroff, suspend, (hibernate?), and reboot the host. (For hosts that support IPMI/iLO or other power control interfaces, this isn't necessary, but there are plenty of hosts that don't support any of this.) Dave On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:45 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
A bunch of us at Red Hat had a bit of a brainstorming session to make a list of things we'd like to see added to libvirt going forward, to better support our needs for virtualization in Fedora / oVirt. We've put details of everything up on the libvirt wiki:
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Todo
This list isn't a firm commitment to actually implement these features. We may later decide that some of them don't belong in libvirt (eg, the question of allowing multiu-thread access to virConnectPtr is open to debate). Nor have we got people actually working on these items - unless explicitly noted against a todo item. If anyone is looking to do work on libvirt and isn't sure of what to work on, this list may be of interest.
Also, this is a wiki, so feel free to add more ideas - or add expanded details to existing ideas. Or reply to this mail, and one of us will add new ideas to the wiki for you
The only request is that you don't actually start implementing things from the list without first discussing proposals on this list, because most of these ideas need more design / analysis before its reasonable to write code
Regards, Daniel