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

[Jan Synacek]

Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> writes:
> 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

I don't see that mail in my mailbox either and I know that you noticed
some mail not arriving before. It seems to cause quite a lot of
confusion in discussion and patch submission. I'm not sure who to report
this to.

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Jan Synacek
Software Engineer, Red Hat