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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 10.10.14 18:48, Richard Weinberger (richard at nod.at) wrote:

> 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.

Hmm, I figure this mail didn't make it through to you?

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/023875.html

And there's of course also the benefit that machinectl can list and
introspect all machines that are registered, though of course this
will not be as interesting for UML-type things than for containers, as
we cannot really look into them just like that.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat