[libvirt] [PATCH] show compiled in options in virsh --version
Daniel Veillard
veillard at redhat.com
Thu Oct 28 19:22:26 UTC 2010
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 04:14:46PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 09:02:31AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> > We already have:
> >
> > $ virsh version
> > Compiled against library: libvir 0.8.2
> > Using library: libvir 0.8.2
> > Using API: QEMU 0.8.2
> > Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.12.5
> >
> > Can we just beef that up, and leave 'virsh --version' as the short
> > information?
>
> Same name but different information. --version is telling you about
> the virsh binary version, while 'version' is telling you about the
> open connection to libvirt. Putting the virsh binary build options
> in 'version' would be somewhat misleading, because they don't
> reflect the open connection
Yeah I didn't want this to rely on a connection, it's not driver
specific in any way, which is why --version was looking fine, but I will
hook this to -V, that's very simple,
Daniel
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