[libvirt] [PATCH 09/10 v5] list: Use virConnectListAllStoragePools in virsh
Eric Blake
eblake at redhat.com
Wed Sep 5 17:03:34 UTC 2012
On 09/05/2012 10:52 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> + for (i = 0; i < npoolTypes; i++) {
>> + if ((poolType = virStoragePoolTypeFromString(poolTypes[i])) < 0) {
>> + vshError(ctl, "%s", _("Invalid pool type"));
>
> Hmm. What happens if we add new pool types in the future? If libvirt
> 0.10.3 supports the new pool type 'foo', but I am connecting with virsh
> 0.10.2 as the client, then I am unable to specify the pool type, even
> though it is valid to the server. But I don't have any good suggestions
> on how to make the full list of supported pool types available, and
> which bits they map to, unless we do something like add a new API to
> return a list of supported pool types and then have this virsh function
> consult that list instead of hard-coding the list at the time of the
> libvirt release when virsh was compiled. Probably not worth the effort.
Or maybe instead of a new API, we reuse existing capability XML to
expose the full list of supported pool types as a capability. I know
I'd also like capability XML to show the supported names of
domxml-{to,from}-native transformations possible for a given driver.
--
Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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