[Lxc-users] Fwd: [libvirt-users] remote lxc via libvirt?

[Serge Hallyn]

I'm well aware it may end up rejected  :)  And I won't be offended if it
is.  I'll quite understand.  From their point of view it's duplicate
functionality.  Really the only way I see it being accepted is if we
could provide a full xml compatibility layer and lose zero features.
Losing zero features should be no problem, but getting someone to
want to do the work with xml configuration files may be diffficult.

It may end up being rejected upstream, but we may still keep it in our
package, both so libvirt can benefit from increased feature set in
liblxc, and because if we could get all libvirt-lxc users switched
over (i.e. default openstack) it would drastically reduce the amount
of testing and disparate bug wrangling.  It's not decided, just a
seductive idea.

-serge

Quoting Dan Kegel (dank at kegel.com):
> FYI.  Seems to be some skepticism about basing libvirt-lxc on
> top of liblxc.
> - Dan
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com>
> Date: Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 7:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] remote lxc via libvirt?
> To: Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>
> Cc: libvirt-users at redhat.com
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:14:39PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > Has support for creating or using lxc containers on remote machines
> > been added to libvirt yet?
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/lxc.html says
> > "Libvirt is a powerful hypervisor management solution with which you
> > can administer Qemu, Xen and LXC virtual machines, both locally and
> > remote."
> > so I assume it's been done and I'm just having trouble seeing it...
> 
>   as long as you have libvirt daemon running on the target host, yes
> that should work.
> 
> > otoh, I hear libvirt-lxc is going to be rewritten on top of liblxc
> > Real Soon Now, maybe that has some bearing on the question.
> 
>   First time I hear about this, to be honnest that was looked at
> in the past and was looking quite unlikely, so I wonder what makes you
> think that way. Before anybody starts to work in that direction they'd
> better synchronize here first, because that may well end up as a
> rejected patch set.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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