[libvirt] [PATCH] storage pool discovery
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Mon Aug 4 08:54:56 UTC 2008
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 04:20:50AM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote:
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> Daniel,
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> Stefan de Konink schreef:
> > As you know I wrote such thing for iSCSI/Solaris, iSCSI/Netapp so... if
> > you want such script I can fabricate something, maybe it would be
> > interesting to not create a script, but instead a binary that links to
> > libvirt and is able to lookup the connection url and creates the xenstore
> > stuff.
>
>
> I have some code now that basically parses the XENBUS_PATH/param and
> looks it up in libvirt. Now I have some questions:
>
> - - Is it possible to reuse the hypervisor connection from within libvirt?
> I would like to make this working:
> xenUnifiedPrivatePtr priv = (xenUnifiedPrivatePtr) conn->privateData;
You are only allowed to cast to xenUnifiedPrivatePtr if you are running
within the Xen driver code. It is forbidden in all other places.
> - - For iSCSI and related stuff everything was relatively easy, because
> this would just mean to write the right /dev/blabla to the xenstore.
> What is your idea to get different drivers working via:
> virt://pool/volume (so basically blktap vs file vs disk)
My idea was to have a script in /etc/xen/scripts/
Daniel
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