Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH 1/4] lib: Remove libguestfs live
On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 03:57:51PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
-Some of the libguestfs tools (including guestfish) support a
I<--live>
-option which is passed through to L</guestfs_add_domain> thus allowing
-you to attach to and modify live virtual machines.
I realise I didn't remove the --live option from guestfish ... TBD.
One interesting relic of this feature is that parts of the daemon
contain calls to Windows APIs (eg. daemon/sync.c). The reason for
that was because we envisaged porting the daemon to Windows to support
the live feature. We will be able to remove all of that cruft in the
future. qemu-guest-agent has of course been ported to Windows and
other non-Linux platforms.
Rich.
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