Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 04/06/2010 03:28 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> Note things like network setup are a bottomless pit.  Pretty soon you
>>> need to setup vlans and bonding etc.  If a user needs one of these and
>>> qemud doesn't provide it, then qemud becomes useless to them.  But the
>>> same problem applies to libvirt.
>>>      
>> If they are a bottomless pit then they are a bottomless pit. There's
>> nothing we can do about it. This pit needs to be dug either way, whether
>> it's in libvirt or in qemud.
>>    
>
> Agreed.  The only difference is who's doing the digging.
>
> One way to avoid it is to have a rich plugin API so if some needs some
> to, say, set up traffic control on the interface, they can write a
> plugin to do that.

Another way would be to have an active open source community that just
writes the support for traffic control upstream if they need it. I
actually prefer that to a plugin API.


Alex



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