[Engine-devel] Announcing a proof of concept REST API for VDSM

[Adam Litke]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 04:32:41PM +0100, Geert Jansen wrote:
> 
> On 11/30/2011 04:09 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> 
> >>How easy is QMF to consume from a software development perspective?
> >>Would it be
> >>easy for someone to write a virsh-like tool against a QMF-based vdsm
> >>API? Would
> >>such a tool be able to run on multiple Linux distributions?
> >
> >it is supposed to have a cli console.
> >cc'ing carl and Ted for more details.
> 
> I'm not sure how hard it is technically. But for ISV's, I can tell
> you that almost nobody has experience with it.

That is not a good sign.  Certainly there must be some sort of standardized and
well understood API transport that we can use.  We're not doing anything
particularly novel as far as the API is concerned.

-- 
Adam Litke <agl at us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center