Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] Re: Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt
On 03/25/2010 08:48 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
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> But an awful lot of the providers for pegasus are written in C.
But we're concerned with only one, the virt provider. None of the
others will use libqemu?
> The point is, C is a lowest common denominator and it's important to
> support in a proper way.
Problem is, it means horrible support for everyone else.
Why?
We can provide a generic QMP dispatch interface that high level
languages can use. Then they can do fancy dispatch, treat QErrors as
exceptions, etc.
We just ought to also provide some simple C wrappers for all of the
functions. Yes, the C interface is inferior to the generic interface
but that's fine.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori