[libvirt] [PATCH 1/4] virDomainIOError public API and remote protocol

[Jiri Denemark]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:57:23 -0500, Federico Simoncelli wrote:
> > +/**
> > + * virDomainIoError:
> > + *
> > + * Disk I/O error.
> > + */
> > +typedef enum {
> > +    VIR_DOMAIN_IOERROR_NONE     = 0, /* no error */
> > +    VIR_DOMAIN_IOERROR_NO_SPACE = 1, /* no space left on the device
> > */
> > +    VIR_DOMAIN_IOERROR_UNSPEC   = 2, /* unspecified I/O error */
> > +
> > +#ifdef VIR_ENUM_SENTINELS
> > +    VIR_DOMAIN_IOERROR_LAST
> > +#endif
> > +} virDomainIoError;
> > +
> >
> 
> Hi Jiri, how do we detect an EIO error? We should need an additional
> error type here?

We could certainly add more error codes but doing so only makes sense when
there is a hypervisor that can report them. Current qemu has three io-status
values: ok, nospace, failed and these values are mapped to
VIR_DOMAIN_IOERROR_NONE, VIR_DOMAIN_IOERROR_NO_SPACE, and
VIR_DOMAIN_IOERROR_UNSPEC. I believe that EIO would be reported as "failed" by
qemu and thus VIR_DOMAIN_IOERROR_UNSPEC by libvirt. It's possible that
VIR_DOMAIN_IOERROR_UNSPEC is not the best name, though :-)

Jirka