Re: [Qemu-devel] Adding Save States menu items

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 09:21:36AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06/10/2016 22:26, Eric Blake wrote:
> > > > Doesn't virt-manager already do this?  What do we gain by duplicating
> > > > GUI functionality at this level that is already implemented at higher
> > > > levels?  Not that I'm opposed to the idea, but having a solid reason why
> > > > it is useful is important.
> > > 
> > > Virt-manager is a Linux exclusive. This program doesn't run on Windows or
> > > Mac OS.
> > 
> > Not true. I've seen it ported to Windows, and I'm sure Cole would
> > welcome a port to Mac.
> 
> I don't think that included a port of libvirtd, so you'd still need a
> Linux system to run the VMs on.

I would expect libvirtd to pretty much "just work" for the most part.
Any part of libvirt which depends on Linux specific APIs has conditional
compilation, or portability layers. OS-X is BSD underneath so majority
of functionality will trivially work - unlike windows where making libvirtd
work is very hard due to missing fork/exec paradigm. There's likely to be
gremlins hiding in the libvirt QEMU driver just because 99% of all work is
done in Linux, but we'd be more than happy with patches to fix any OS-X
portability problems.

Regards,
Daniel
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