[Users] qemu-ga /oVirt/ubuntu guest

[Yedidyah Bar David]

Hi,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sven Kieske" <S.Kieske at mittwald.de>
> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Users at ovirt.org List" <Users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 11:36:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] qemu-ga /oVirt/ubuntu guest
> 
> Hi,
> 
> and thanks for your fast reply, but you
> are looking in the wrong direction.

Sorry :-)

> 
> I was talking about the _qemu_-guest-agent
> not the ovirt-guest-agent.
> 
> afaik they are not similar but ovirt seems
> to rebuild some of the capabilities which
> qemu-guest-agent already has.
> 
> (Any reason why this is done btw?)
> 
> afaik they share e.g. the ability to
> power down the vm.
> 
> but qemu-ga also will allow cpu-hotplug
> and altering disk layout inside the guest
> in the future.
> 
> I'm aware of your mentioned repository for
> the ovirt-guest-agent and I already reported
> that it works good so far (an offical repo would
> of course be better).
> 
> I didn't find a repo for qemu-ga unfortunately.

I see that it's packaged in Ubuntu:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/raring/+package/qemu-guest-agent
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/raring/+source/qemu/1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4
https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu/raring/+source/qemu

and for that matter, Debian:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-qemu/qemu.git
-- 
Didi