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This preliminary patch series adds a libvirt backend to libguestfs. It's for review only because although it launches the guest OK, there are some missing features that need to be implemented. The meat of the patch is in part 4/4. To save you the trouble of interpreting libxml2 fragments, an example of the generated XML and the corresponding qemu command line are attached below. Note the

These three patches (for discussion only, NOT to be applied) implement a mutex system that lets the user limit the number of libguestfs instances that can be launched per host. There are two uses that I have identified for this: firstly so we can enable parallel-tests (the default in automake >= 1.13) without blowing up the host. Secondly oVirt has raised concerns about how to limit the

This rounds off hotplugging support by allowing you to add and remove drives at any stage (before and after launch). Rich.