[Libvir] remote access ?

[Daniel Veillard]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 08:33:08PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 04:37:22PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > >It is a bug in xend_internal.c
> > >
> > >    if (strcasecmp (name, "xen") == 0 ||
> > >        strncasecmp (name, "xen:///", 7) == 0) {
> > >
> > >
> > >This needs to die & be replaced with code calling the libxml URI parsing.
> > >I fixed a similar bug in the QEMU driver a few weeks back.
> > 
> > Sorry yes, Dan is right, so ignore the hack/patch I just posted.
> > 
> > In fact xen_unified.c already parses the URI once, so we just need to 
> > change the xen_unified <-> xen low level drivers API to pass the parsed 
> > URI instead of the name string.
> 
> In fact we could take it one bit further. Have the 'do_open' method in
> the src/libvirt.c file parse it & change the src/driver.h so that the
> open method for drivers takes  xmlURIPtr instead of a char *. That way
> we guarentee that all drivers will use a correctly parsed form.

  Sounds good but we would have to reserialize for the network access
I assume.

Daniel

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