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