[Libvir] PATCH: Allow emptry bootloader

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Sat Sep 29 18:31:23 UTC 2007


On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 06:10:40AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:12:41PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Latest XenD allows for default bootloader to be used if one is not defined
> > for a paravirt OS. libvirt doesn't currently cope with this (see Solaris
> > thread), since it requires either a bootloader or kernel to always be
> > present.
> > 
> > The attached patch allows for an emptry bootloader element to indicate that
> > the domain should use the default.
> > 
> > <domain type='xen' id='-1'>
> >   <name>rhel5pv</name>
> >   <uuid>614d7eb0-c6b1-5235-ac39-361b20f6cd49</uuid>
> >   <bootloader/>
> >   <os>
> >     <type>linux</type>
> >   </os>
> >    ...snip...
> > </domain>
> > 
> > 
> > The current API for looking up nodes in the SEXPR did not allow for the 
> > scenario where you might want to lookup a node with no content, eg
> > 
> >        (bootloader )
> > 
> > This distinction is needed here, so I added an sexpr_has() method to check
> > for this.
> > 
> > Second, it fixes a long standing bug where we'd record an error about the
> > missing kernel or bootloader, but then continue generating (malformed) XML
> > anyway. With this patch, it will correctly fail if the empty bootloader
> > field is missing from the SEXPR.
> 
>   Looks fine to me +1,

Ok, comitted this to CVS.


Dan.
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