[fedora-virt] qemu 1.3 in fedora git, but not rawhide yet

[Cole Robinson]

On 12/12/2012 06:46 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/08/2012 09:47 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've pushed qemu 1.3 to the fedora git repo, but haven't pushed a build to
>> rawhide yet as I'm hitting a few problems:
> 
>> Any assistance, comments, etc. appreciated.
> 
> While we're thinking about Fedora, I just filed:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=886705
> 
> as a request to get qemu-guest-agent installed by default into live
> images.  Although it's a long shot, I even gave rationale for why it
> might violate blocker requirements (but it might still be accepted as a
> nice-to-have improvement even though we are past beta).
> 
> Also, I found it rather inconvenient to get guest agent support enabled
> into my guest; I ended up manually using 'virsh edit' to add:
> 
>     <channel type='unix'>
>       <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/GUEST.agent'/>
>       <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/>
>     </channel>
> 

Libvirt really needs a mode to just auto-allocate a host socket path,
otherwise apps would have to hardcode /var/lib/libvirt, which can be different
depending on how ./configure was run. And hardcoding gets extra hairy if you
include qemu:///session

> with GUEST made appropriately unique per guest, and think it would be
> nice if virt-manager could make guest-agent support easier to turn on
> with a single checkbox.
> 

I want to have virt-manager just add this bit for all new virtio supporting
guests. And add some UI niceness for adding known channels like qemu agent.

- Cole