[libvirt] [PATCH 2/4] VirtualBox support

[Pritesh Kothari]

Hi Daniel,

> > I have attached a patch which when applied on the HEAD as of today would
> > allow virtualbox support in libvirt. It takes cares of all the stuff
> > mentioned on the list earlier. Still if I have missed anything, please do
> > tell me.
>
> I actually just tried out your previous patch from 2 days ago and it
> worked without trouble, so I reckon we can plan to get this driver
> in the forthcoming  release next week.

That's great news :)

> > +    if ((guest = virCapabilitiesAddGuest(caps,
> > +                                         "hvm",
> > +                                         utsname.machine,
> > +                                         sizeof(int) == 4 ? 32 : 64,
>
> I was wondering why the capabilities said '32' as wordsize
> even on x86_64, and of course this is because 'int' is still
> 32 bits on x86_64.   I'd switch to 'sizeof(size_t)' instead
> unless someone has better suggestions for determining the
> native arch wordsize in a portable manner.

fixed this. used (sizeof(void *) * CHAR_BIT) instead of  (sizeof(int) == 4 ? 
32 : 64)

> > +static const char *vboxGetType(virConnectPtr conn ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED) {
> > +    DEBUG("%s: in vboxGetType",conn->driver->name);
> > +    return strdup("VBox");
> > +}
>
> This shouldn't strdup the type - the returned string is const,
> not to be free'd by caller.
> Even better just remove this method entirely. I don't know why
> we have this as a driver method at all. The default impl in
> src/libvirt.c already does the correct thing, returning the
> conn->driver->name string.
>
> We should remove getType from all our driver impls.

removed this method from the driver. Thanks

Regards,
Pritesh