[Libvir] Question about libvirt integration into RHEL-5

[Philippe Berthault]

Daniel Veillard a écrit :
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:27:52AM +0100, Philippe Berthault wrote:
>   
>> Daniel Veillard a écrit :
>>     
>>>  it is 0.1.8 but with 12 patches which are backport of later bug fixes or 
>>> important features like localization, shareable disk support, core dump 
>>> support,
>>> etc ...
>>>  I guess it's closer to 0.1.9 as a result than 0.1.8,
>>>  
>>>       
>> Hum ! :-(
>> Currently, the version of libvirt determines its unequivocal contents. 
>> With a patched version of libvirt, it becomes impossible in an 
>> application to known the functionalities level of libvirt if the version 
>> number is identical to a non-patched libvirt.
>>
>> Could you explain how it's possible from an application to distinguish 
>> between a patched libvirt and a non-patched libvirt or another patched 
>> version of libvirt by using the virGetVersion() function ?
>>     
>
>   Can explain your problem instead ?
> What is the feature or behaviour you need to detect ?
>   
We have to know if the Attach/Detach devices functions will be in the 
libvirt library of RHEL-5 RC1 and also if some enhancements of the XML 
format will be present such as currentMemory, ...