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

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:24:18AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 05:31:05PM +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I wrote a small patch for user-mode linux to register with machined by
> >> calling "CreateMachine". Is this a good idea to do so?
> > Yes, this sounds useful. After all is just another mechanism of
> > virtualization, and in this case can be treated similarly to
> > containers and vms.
> 
> I still want a sane reason and a usecase for that.
> Can someone please educate me? :-)
> 
> Please note that also qemu does not register itself to systemd.
> libvirt does. I think going down this path makes also sense for UML
> as libvirt has a UML driver too.
> qemu and the UML ELF image are the low level building blocks.
> Managers like libvirt should register the virtual machines created by
> LXC, UML, qemu, etc.. to systemd.
True, it probably is better to do at it the level of libvirt.

Zbyszek