[libvirt] [PATCH] Determine kvm max vcpus via version number

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:53:16AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:25:16PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> >> The attached patch is a slimmed down version of a patch
> >> I posted a while back. This expands qemu help message
> >> parsing to look for a kvm version number, which can be
> >> used to determine maximum supported vcpus.
> >>
> >> A kvmVersion field is added to the qemu_driver structure,
> >> and a check to determine the version is added to the
> >> libvirtd start up routine. If the kvm version isn't found
> >> (say if kvm isn't installed), kvmVersion is set to 0.
> >>
> >> This is against Guido Gunther's patch "maxVCPU runtime 
> >> detection": his method takes precendence in the code
> >> if it's available.
> > 
> >   Looks fine to me,
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> 
> I'm actually taking this off the table. I think Guido's
> solution is sufficient: works fine on f8, where as mine
> would have to accomodate different qemu help messages
> between at least f8 and f9, which is just getting into
> more work and complexity.
> 
> So please ignore this patch.

  Okay :-)

Daniel

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