[Users] Agents for Windows

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On 20 December 2013 07:40, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 12/19/2013 02:35 PM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:

>> Whats the host (qemu) program for sending commands to qemu-ga?
>
>
> qemu supports sending commands to qemu-ga. libvirt abstracts the qemu api
> for these commands. vdsm uses the libvirt api when qemu-ga operations are
> relevant. ovirt-engine asks vdsm for the operation (say, thaw/freeze during
> live snaphost would be done by libvirt on qemu, send to qemu-ga).

Can the qemu-ga cmds be sent from the cmd line? are there any docs for this?

Fee free to just send me a link :)

>> If I wanted, could I build my own qemu-ga and make it available? or would
>> it
>> be undesirable from your perspective  to have foreign builds of it
>> floating
>> about. Would it be better for me to write my own agent?
>
>
> the main problems with delivering windows binaries are build machines,
> licensing of tools, etc.
> so there is no problem with you providing those builds if they don't happen
> to be available already.

I thought you wouldn't like people distributing custom builds of
qemu-ga when you have your own official ones, that it might confuse
people.


Cheers,

-- 
Lindsay