[libvirt] PATCH: Pass -uuid and -domid to QEMU if available

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 04:33:12PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:52:40PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Latest QEMU code now allows setting of the UUID in its SMBIOS data tables
> > via the -uuid command line arg. THis patch makes use of that feature by
> > pasing in the libvirt UUID for the VM. While doing this I also added 
> > support for the Xenner specific -domid flag
> 
>   Seems some people were waiting for this :-)
>    http://blog.loftninjas.org/?p=261
> 
> > @@ -901,10 +903,10 @@ static int qemudStartVMDaemon(virConnect
> >      ret = virExec(conn, argv, progenv, &keepfd, &vm->pid,
> >                    vm->stdin_fd, &vm->stdout_fd, &vm->stderr_fd,
> >                    VIR_EXEC_NONBLOCK);
> > -    if (ret == 0) {
> > -        vm->def->id = driver->nextvmid++;
> > +    if (ret == 0)
> >          vm->state = migrateFrom ? VIR_DOMAIN_PAUSED : VIR_DOMAIN_RUNNING;
> > -    }
> > +    else
> > +        vm->def->id = -1;
> 
>   Okay, i had a bit of trouble with that part of the patch, but I assume
> that since the  id can come from the config file, it's already set at
> that point and we update to -1 only if the exec failed.

Originally we didn't allocate the ID value until after building the
command line, but since we need to pass -domid to Xenner, I had to
move it to allocate the ID value before. So we have this extra
cleanup step to blank out the ID if domain startup fails

Daniel
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