[virt-tools-list] [virt-viewer] Add oVirt support

[Deepak C Shetty]

On 01/28/2013 03:20 PM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 04:06:37PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:57:10PM +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
>>> This commit adds support for ovirt:// URIs. It does so by using
>>> libgovirt to get the spice/vnc connection information through
>>> oVirt xmlrpc API.
>>> ---
>>>   configure.ac        |  20 ++++-
>>>   src/Makefile.am     |  13 +++
>>>   src/remote-viewer.c | 233 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>> Since you're adding new deps, you nede to be updating the RPM
>> spec files too.
> Ah right, I'll do that (though I still haven't packaged/got libgovirt into
> fedora :-/ )
>
>> What sort of deps does this drag in ? Is the ovirt library
>> self-contained - ie I hope it doesn't pull in any of the
>> java bloatware.
> libgovirt is a small gobject wrapper for the oVirt REST API. The official
> oVirt REST SDK is entirely written in python, that's why I wrote this small
> library which for now only does the bare minimum to list VMs/get connection
> parameters.
> It's written in C, and depends on glib/gobject and librest (small GObject
> library which depends on libsoup).
>
> Christophe
Out of curiosity.. what is the aim of this thing (short and long term) ? 
to be able to manage oVirt VMs from virt-manager ?  Why won't i use 
ovirt itself.. any usecase of where and how this will be useful ?