Monday, April 29, 2019

Re: Qemu Agent assistance needed

On 2019-04-29, Strahil Nikolov <hunter86_bg@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yes , but not only.
> I'm using oVirt - a KVM management tool and I can currently make a snapshot only by pausing the VM or by completely stopping it first.
> For now, it's not a big deal - as I'm still exploring openBSD , but who knows.
> Also the management interface cannot provide details about CPU and RAM usage , nor I cannot gracefully shut the VM down from the interface.
> The oVirt manager allows automatic evacuation of the VM, if it requires more memory/cpu than the host can currently providing (for a lab overcommitting is normal).
>
> I'm just looking to enable those fancy things that make our life easier.

qemu-ga needs a way to communicate with the kernel to tell it to stop
filesystem activity etc. OpenBSD doesn't support this.

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