Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/25/2010 07:37 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/25/2010 02:33 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > From my point of view, i wouldn't want to write a high level 
> > > management toolstack in C, specially
> > > since the API is well defined JSON which is easily available in all 
> > > high level language out there.
> >
> >
> > There's a whole world of C based management toolstacks (CIM).
>
> Gratefully I know very little about CIM, but isn't it language 
> independent?
>
> The prominent open source implementation, pegasus, is written in C++.

There is also SFCB which is written in C.

But an awful lot of the providers for pegasus are written in C.

The point is, C is a lowest common denominator and it's important to 
support in a proper way.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Or are you referring to specific management apps written in C?  If 
> they go through CIM, how can they talk qmp?