[libvirt] [PATCH] schemas: capability: Add ostype 'aix'

[Cole Robinson]

On 04/22/2015 05:17 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 02:34:09PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 04/21/2015 02:17 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>> ---
>>>  docs/schemas/capability.rng | 1 +
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/docs/schemas/capability.rng b/docs/schemas/capability.rng
>>> index 5f3ec70..3868ee2 100644
>>> --- a/docs/schemas/capability.rng
>>> +++ b/docs/schemas/capability.rng
>>> @@ -266,6 +266,7 @@
>>>          <value>hvm</value> <!-- unmodified OS -->
>>>          <value>exe</value> <!-- For container based virt -->
>>>          <value>uml</value> <!-- user mode linux -->
>>> +        <value>aix</value> <!-- used by phyp driver -->
>>
>> ACK
> 
> Actually I don't think this is correct - I think it is another case
> of the phyp driver being rather confused.
> 
> The phyp driver doesn't use the def->os.type anywhere in its code as
> far as I can tell.
> 
> The place where 'aix' is used is bizarrely in the phypDomainAttachDevice
> method where it calls virDomainDefNew() and then sets os.type to 'aix'
> before calling virDomainDeviceDefParse. This is all just bizarre, but
> the 'aix' type doesn't appear to ever leak out to the end user in the
> XML unless I'm missing something. So I don't think we should add this
> to the RNG.

Indeed thanks for looking, I should have looked closer.

I just sent a patch that drops AIX entirely and switches phyp to use
OSTYPE_LINUX (?) which is what it advertises via capabilities

- Cole