Yah I had some similar constraints, also I just didn't want to bring the entire mess of libvirt into my project's life.
> This would be especially true if the QEMU CLI was simplified slightly and better documented.
I think this is the biggest issue. I can't complain because I haven't helped fix it, but the command line flag explosion, coupled with the qemu -readconfig/-writeconfig sucking is a big reason people just check out mentally and write big XML descriptions of their VMs.
Yah I had some similar constraints, also I just didn't want to bring the entire mess of libvirt into my project's life.
> This would be especially true if the QEMU CLI was simplified slightly and better documented.
I think this is the biggest issue. I can't complain because I haven't helped fix it, but the command line flag explosion, coupled with the qemu -readconfig/-writeconfig sucking is a big reason people just check out mentally and write big XML descriptions of their VMs.