[Libguestfs] [PATCH 0/4] v2v: simplify driver copying from virtio-win iso

[Roman Kagan]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 02:12:03PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 03:57:51PM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> > Looks right...  The problem is that the statement which runs
> > unconditionally is
> > 
> >     g#cp source target
> > 
> > where, in case the condition evaluates to false, "target" is undefined,
> > and "source" is anything returned from g#find vio_root, including
> > directories.  I thought that would case an exception one way or another,
> > but it doesn't...
> 
> Something is never going to be undefined in OCaml.  There's no such
> thing.

I guess you mean that it would trigger a compile error; it didn't, and
it overall worked as if the parentheses were there.

OK it doesn't really matter, I'll stick in the parentheses anyway; no
point digging into OCaml peculiarities.

> > I just came across another problem in the last patch of the series,
> > though: I accidentally configured libguestfs to use direct backend, and
> > immediately discovered that reusing the main guestfs handle doesn't work
> > with it due to the lack of support for hotplugging drives.  So I'll need
> > to reconsider it somehow (perhaps try with hotplug and fall back to
> > creating a new handle on exception).
> 
> Why don't we just use the second handle.

Well, because it's resource-intensive and looks like an overkill for a
simple job of parsing an iso image.  Not that critical, of course, and
we can drop the 4th patch altogether, if you think it's not worth while.

Roman.