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    qemu: introduce a new "virt-qemu-run" program · d6006672
    Daniel P. Berrangé 提交于
    The previous "QEMU shim" proof of concept was taking an approach of only
    caring about initial spawning of the QEMU process. It was then
    registered with the libvirtd daemon who took over management of it. The
    intent was that later libvirtd would be refactored so that the shim
    retained control over the QEMU monitor and libvirt just forwarded APIs
    to each shim as needed. This forwarding of APIs would require quite alot
    of significant refactoring of libvirtd to achieve.
    
    This impl thus takes a quite different approach, explicitly deciding to
    keep the VMs completely separate from those seen & managed by libvirtd.
    Instead it uses the new "qemu:///embed" URI scheme to embed the entire
    QEMU driver in the shim, running with a custom root directory.
    
    Once the driver is initialization, the shim starts a VM and then waits
    to shutdown automatically when QEMU shuts down, or should kill QEMU if
    it is terminated itself. This ought to use the AUTO_DESTROY feature but
    that is not yet available in embedded mode, so we rely on installing a
    few signal handlers to gracefully kill QEMU. This isn't reliable if
    we crash of course, but you can restart with the same root dir.
    
    Note this program does not expose any way to manage the QEMU process,
    since there's no RPC interface enabled. It merely starts the VM and
    cleans up when the guest shuts down at the end. This program is
    installed to /usr/bin/virt-qemu-run enabling direct use by end users.
    Most use cases will probably want to integrate the concept directly
    into their respective application codebases. This standalone binary
    serves as a nice demo though, and also provides a way to measure
    performance of the startup process quite simply.
    Reviewed-by: NMichal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: NDaniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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