[libvirt] [PATCH 09/15] Add libvirt-admin library

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 02:25:48PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:28:11AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 04:46:44PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> >>Initial scratch of the admin library.  It has its own virAdmConnectPtr
> >>that inherits from virAbstractConnectPtr and thus trivially supports
> >>error reporting.
> >
> >See my note earlier about error reporting on the connection being
> >a bad idea due to lack of thread safety.
> >
> >>Configuration option --with-admin is added to control whether the admin
> >>library should be built or not (set to 'yes' by default).
> >
> >Is there a compelling reason why we'd need/want to be able to
> >disable building of the admin library ?  As a comparison we
> >unconditionally build  libvirt-qemu.so & libvirt-lxc.so
> >
> 
> No reason, I just figured someone might want to disable that.
> 
> [...]
> >>+virAdmConnectPtr virAdmConnectOpen(unsigned int flags);
> >
> >How does this figure out which libvirtd daemon to connect to ? Presumably
> >you've hardcoded it based on the UID you're running as ?
> 
> It doesn't.  I don't think anyone is going to use this to connect to
> the session daemon.  I also don't see anyone having session daemon
> running without the possibility of restarting it.
> 
> >I think for future proofing we should probably define a URI syntax
> >for this.
> >
> >eg
> >
> >  admin:///system
> >  admin:///session
> >
> >And allow an optional parameter for the socket path, for people who
> >have built their daemon with an unusual --prefix arg.
> >
> 
> I think we can keep it without the possibility of connecting to the
> session daemon and if that is going to change, we can add
> virAdmConnectSession() function.  In the meantime I'd rather focus on
> enabling this functionality then dealing with session daemon, all the
> unnecessary code it adds and the problems we already have with the
> session daemon.

I really think we need to have a URI here, as adding new connect
functions doesn't really scale well. I don't think supporting the
session instance should really add any complexity - all that changes
is the socket path we need to use.

Regards,
Daniel
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