[libvirt] [PATCH] virConnectListAllDomains

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Aug 29 13:38:37 UTC 2008


On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 02:30:55PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 02:26:47PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > The compatability code requires that you get all virDomainInfo objects
> > to filter by state, but a native implementation in the various drivers
> > will not neccessarily require this to be done.  I agree we should
> > have the 'infos' parameter in the public API, it should be allowed
> > to be NULL though.
> 
> OK, I'll change it so that infos can be NULL (but not domains).
> Mainly this will involve changing the remote code.
> 
> > Fetching the info for QEMU guests is not entirely
> > without costs of its own - read & parse several /proc/ files per
> > VM, and filtering can be done without this, since QEMU tracks the state
> > flag in libvirtd explicitly.
> 
> Yes, I missed the fact that qemuDomainGetInfo has to call out to get
> process information.  I thought it just got everything from the vm
> structure.
> 
> > I'd like to see an implementation of this working against XenD before
> > we commit this to API, since that's the driver which stands to gain
> > the most from the performance improvements this API ought to allow. 
> 
> OK, I don't have a way to test Xen right now.  I was hoping I could
> implement it for QEMU first.

If you have code that at least compiles, I can debug/test it - I've
got various Xen versions running in KVM guests :-)

Daniel
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