On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:41:35PM +0200, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
- libvirt is way more complex and fails much more frequently :-(
It's unfortunately because of the last point that if libvirt fails to start the qemu appliance, we print an error message telling you to try with LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct.
That was one of the motivations. You were hit by it too apparently ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271183 ).
That's one of the bugs. Coincidentally I conducted a test last night to quantify the incidence of libvirt errors, and I'm going to post the results shortly. Rich.
I removed the connect line and set the environment variable and all looks good. I indeed don't see any much different performance difference.
Thanks! Y.
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