On 05/26/2017 02:11 AM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:16:26AM -0700, Peter Volpe wrote:
Hi Everyone,
We are working towards building on the virtualization management
functionality in cockpit (http://cockpit-project.org/) and wanted to get
some feedback on the best way to integrate with libvirt.
As a quick overview, cockpit aims to talk to existing remotable system
APIs. Usually these API’s take the form of dbus, REST or executable
commands. The majority of cockpit is implemented in javascript. There is
no cockpit backend that knows how to change a hostname for example. The
cockpit backend knows how to handle a dbus payload. The javascript
running in the users browser knows how to use the systemd dbus API at
org.freedesktop.hostname1 to manage the system hostname.
Right now some of the basics have been implemented by spawning commands
on the system. This isn't ideal because it involves parsing / screen
scraping output and doesn't support receiving events so we have to poll
(ei run the command again) to keep the UI up to date.
As far as I know libvirt doesn't currently have a remoteable API. It
does have a daemon that communicates with clients via a XDR RPC.
(https://libvirt.org/internals/rpc.html) However from what I'm hearing
the RPC is considered an internal implementation and shouldn't be used
by external applications. Is that still the case? Is there any chance of
getting talking the daemon directly using the XDR standard for a subset
of methods blessed as part of the externally supported API?
If we standardize even the smallest part of the RPC, then it might screw
us immediately. We are keeping it private just so we can enhance the
APIs we already have. We don't know when we will need to change some
part of it.
How does the current ssh implementation work?
(https://libvirt.org/remote.html) If clients are able to talk to a
remote libvirtd via ssh then there must be some sort of compatibility
guarantee. Otherwise unless the versions are exactly the same clients
wouldn't be able to talk to remote daemons.
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