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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in li
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Markus Armbruster |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt |
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Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:50:24 +0100 |
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Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> writes:
> On 03/25/2010 07:37 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 03/25/2010 02:33 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>> From my point of view, i wouldn't want to write a high level
>>>> management toolstack in C, specially
>>>> since the API is well defined JSON which is easily available in
>>>> all high level language out there.
>>>
>>>
>>> There's a whole world of C based management toolstacks (CIM).
>>>
>>
>> Gratefully I know very little about CIM, but isn't it language
>> independent?
>>
>> The prominent open source implementation, pegasus, is written in C++.
>
> There is also SFCB which is written in C.
>
> But an awful lot of the providers for pegasus are written in C.
>
> The point is, C is a lowest common denominator and it's important to
> support in a proper way.
No. The lowest truly common denominator is plain text. And we got that
covered already.
A developer encountered the problem of talking a simple text protocol.
He thought "I know, I'll create a 1:1 C API for that". Now he got two
problems.
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Anthony Liguori, 2010/03/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Avi Kivity, 2010/03/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Anthony Liguori, 2010/03/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Avi Kivity, 2010/03/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Anthony Liguori, 2010/03/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Luiz Capitulino, 2010/03/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Anthony Liguori, 2010/03/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Jamie Lokier, 2010/03/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Avi Kivity, 2010/03/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Vincent Hanquez, 2010/03/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt,
Markus Armbruster <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Anthony Liguori, 2010/03/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Markus Armbruster, 2010/03/26
- Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] Re: Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Paolo Bonzini, 2010/03/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Avi Kivity, 2010/03/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Anthony Liguori, 2010/03/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Anthony Liguori, 2010/03/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Gildas Le Nadan, 2010/03/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Daniel P. Berrange, 2010/03/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Vincent Hanquez, 2010/03/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt, Daniel P. Berrange, 2010/03/25