[Libvir] [QEMU 1/3] hook up driver methods for inactive domains
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Wed Aug 30 13:38:10 UTC 2006
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 03:39:17AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 12:15:40AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >
> > The attached patch prepares the driver method API to support inactive
> > domains. The following methods are hooked up:
> >
> > * virConnectListDefinedDomains
> > * virConnectNumOfDefinedDomains
> > * virDomainDefineXML
> > * virDomainUndefine
> > * virDomainCreate
> >
> > It sets all existing drivers to have NULL in these fields.
> >
> > The existing code in virDomainDefineXML was ripped out since it was found
> > to be more trouble than it was worth - the backend driver needed to repeat
> > most of the logic anyway - so better just to delegate the whole lot.
>
> Okay, I didn't expected those inactive domain entry point to be driver
> specific, but in perspective you are right. At some point the support will
> go directly into Xen for example, so that was a mistake on my part, and
> well for example with UML the inactive domain definitions could be saved
> in the .uml directory, so it will have to be driver specific.
> The patch is a direct implementation of this, looks fine to me,
> the addition of virConnectNumOfDefinedDomains() make sense since we have
> the equivalent for active ones.
>
> Looks fine to me, go for it !
Ok, this is committed now.
Dan.
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