[Libvir] [RFC] 3 of 4 Linux Container support

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 06:32:45PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> ...
> > The following patches make the driver properly integrate with the stateful
> > driver APIs. It also changes the config files to be named by on VM name
> > instead of UUID, since this is what the QEMU driver does & its more user
> > friendly. It also adds the CLONE_XXX constants since they have not yet
> > been added to the libc  sched.h file. IMHO we should enable the driver by
> > default, since it can already probe for availability at runtime. Finally
> > it also fixes a typo where it wrote 'linuxcontainer' as the domain type
> > in the config file instead of 'lxc'.
> ...
> > Index: src/lxc_driver.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /data/cvs/libvirt/src/lxc_driver.c,v
> ...
> > +static lxc_driver_t *lxc_driver;
> 
> Do you really want to add a static variable to the library?

Yes, this turns LXC into a stateful driver that lives in the context of the
daemon only. This is the same way the QEMU / network drivers work.

Regards,
Dan.
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