[libvirt] PATCH: 4/7: Convert LXC to new domain APIs

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Tue Aug 12 14:39:05 UTC 2008


"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> The re-architecting of the LXC controller/container process relationship
> in the previous patch removed the last obstacle to switching over to the
> generic domain XML routines. So this patch switches the driver over.
>
> First the vast majority of lxc_conf.h/c is simply deleted - this is all
> redundant when using the domain_conf.h APIs. Then, all references to lxc_vm_t
> are changed to virDomainObj, and lxc_vm_def_t switches to virDomainDef.
> Finally the LXC driver registers its capabilities data. For this I have
> chosen an OS type of 'exe', since the 'operating system' we're running
> in the container is just any plain executable process.
>
>
>  lxc_conf.c       | 1052 +------------------------------------------------------
>  lxc_conf.h       |  121 ------
>  lxc_container.c  |   23 -
>  lxc_container.h  |    2
>  lxc_controller.c |    4
>  lxc_controller.h |    2
>  lxc_driver.c     |  289 ++++++++-------
>  7 files changed, 215 insertions(+), 1278 deletions(-)

All looks fine.
ACK.

However, please note that it would have been a lot easier/quicker
to review if you'd done the mechanical/automatable changes
(i.e., the global substitutions like s/lxc_vm_t/virDomainObj/)
separately from the others.




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