[libvirt] [PATCH] Refactor ESX storage driver and add iSCSI support

[Matthias Bolte]

2012/8/20 Ata E Husain Bohra <ata.husain at hotmail.com>:
> The patch refactors the current ESX storage driver due to following reasons:
>
> 1. Given most of the public APIs exposed by the storage driver in Libvirt
>    remains same, ESX storage driver should not implement logic specific
>    for only one supported format (current implementation only supports VMFS).
> 2. Decoupling interface from specific storage implementation gives us an
>    extensible design to hook implementation for other supported storage
>    formats.
>
> This patch refactors the current driver to implement it as a facade pattern i.e.
> the driver exposes all the public libvirt APIs, but uses backend drivers to get
> the required task done. The backend drivers provide implementation specific to
> the type of storage device.

This patch is quite huge. Maybe you could split it up into two
patches. The first one for adding the backend structure to the storage
driver and moving the current driver code to its own backend. The
second patch for adding the new iSCSI backend.

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