[Info-vax] libvirt and emulation - (was: axpbox crashed when logged out.)

[John E. Malmberg]

Ideally any emulator would have a libvirt driver that can use it.

The libvirt API provides an interface for third-party management tools 
to control the system.

It also provides its own GUI and command line tools for managing the 
configuration of the emulated system.

The fastest route to this is to get the libvirt-lxc driver fixed to 
support privileged containers again.   (Or risk running Ubuntu 14.04, etc.)

Even if the KVM driver is used, it would be a big plus if the emulator 
could use the libvirt APIs to read its configuration files.

This change makes the emulator immediately more useful in a cloud or 
volume hosting environment.

I also noticed that the libvirt qemu emulator supports an Alpha 
processor target.   Has anyone tried to get OpenVMS running on such an 
environment?

Regards,
-John