[Libvir] [PATCH] hypervisor version

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:06:16PM -0400, Mark Johnson wrote:
> This is another patch which may not be popular? Xen's
> extra version does not fit in libvirt's release field (since it's
> part of an int).
> 
> Instead of printing out the wrong value, just display
> major.minor in virsh.

Hmm, so with Xen we have two backend impls of the Version API, one talking
to the hypervisor which only ever returns the first 2 components, and the
other talking to XenD which processes all 3.

As you say, in practice the extra version from Xen is effectively garbage

So while as root I see

# virsh version
Compiled against library: libvir 0.2.2
Using library: libvir 0.2.2
Using API: Xen 3.0.1
Running hypervisor: Xen 3.1.0

If run as non-root I instead seee

$ virsh version
Compiled against library: libvir 0.2.2
Using library: libvir 0.2.2
Using API: Xen 3.0.1
Running hypervisor: Xen 3.730.259


I think instead of this patch to change the virsh driver though, we should
change teh xend_internal.c file to ignore the extra_version data from XenD
as there's no way to meaningfully interpret it as an int.

Dan,
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