[Libvir] [RFC] Host and guest capabilities

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Mar 7 12:40:53 UTC 2007


Some additional comments on what these mean:

> +int virCapabilitiesGetHostSupportsHVM (virCapabilitiesPtr caps);

Would return true if the host supports HVM ...

> +int virCapabilitiesGetHostHVMDisabledByBIOS (virCapabilitiesPtr caps);

... but this would return true if the HVM isn't available to Xen, 
indicating that it's disabled in the BIOS.  Virt-manager could use this 
to present some sort of message about how to enable in the BIOS.

> +int virGuestArchitecturesGetCount (virGuestArchitecturesPtr archs);
> +char *virGuestArchitecturesGetName (virGuestArchitecturesPtr archs, int n);
> +int virGuestArchitecturesGetIsHVM (virGuestArchitecturesPtr archs, int n);

If this architecture supports full virt.

> +int virGuestArchitecturesGetIsAccelerated (virGuestArchitecturesPtr archs, int n);

If this architecture is accelerated (eg. all Xen architectures, and qemu 
architectures using kqemu).

> +int virGuestArchitecturesGetIsEmulated (virGuestArchitecturesPtr archs, int n);

eg. qemu emulating a completely different architecture.

> +int virGuestArchitecturesGetIsBigEndian (virGuestArchitecturesPtr archs, int n);

Xen on IA64 allows guests to be big endian.  It's not clear if the IA64 
HV is always little endian though.

> +int virGuestArchitecturesGetBits (virGuestArchitecturesPtr archs, int n);

Returns 32 or 64.

> +int virGuestArchitecturesGetIsPAE (virGuestArchitecturesPtr archs, int n);

Xen on x86 allows guests to be PAE or non-PAE.

Rich.

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