[systemd-devel] Should user mode linux register with machined?

[Richard Weinberger]

Lennart,

Am 10.10.2014 um 18:44 schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> It's a bit more complex. While UML, qemu, kvm, currently don't, LXC,
> systemd-nspawn and libvirt-lxc all do talk directly to machined. (Note
> that LXC and libvirt-lxc are separate codebases, the latter is *not* a
> wrapper around the former).
> 
> So, dunno, it really is up to how you intend UML to be used. If UML
> shall be nice and useful without libvirt, then it's worth doing the
> registration natively, but it's also OK to just leave this to libvirt,
> if that's your primary envisioned usecase...

What is the benefit of this registration?
I boot all day long UML and qemu-kvm VMs without registering them to systemd,
so I don't really know what I'm missing. :-)
But if there is a nice use case I'll happily add the registration to UML.

Thanks,
//richard