[libvirt] PATCH: User mode linux driver

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Wed Nov 19 15:17:53 UTC 2008


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 02:48:44PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 02:49:01PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 01:12:55PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > This patch is an update of
> >   Hummm, that change to console code parsing seems rather unrelated,
> > isn't it ?
> 
> It is needed actually - the old logic was subtley flawed. The original
> logic was saying if no serial devices were present, and a console
> was specified then make that console look like a serial device. This is
> compatability for old mistake where we treated Xen HVM serial console
> as a paravirt <console/>. This fixup logic was accidentailly being applied
> to all types of domain, when it should only have been applied to HVM
> guests. This causes problem with User Mode Linux, where you explicitly
> have 0 or more paravirt consoles, and 0 or more serial ports. So my
> change here, just restricts the fixup to hvm only.

  ah, okay !

> > > +    for (i = 0 ; i < 16 ; i++) {
> > > +        char *ret;
> > > +        if (i == 0 && vm->def->console)
> > > +            ret = umlBuildCommandLineChr(conn, vm->def->console, "con");
> > > +        else
> > > +            if (asprintf(&ret, "con%d=none", i) < 0)
> > > +                goto no_memory;
> > > +        ADD_ARG(ret);
> > > +    }
> > > +
> > > +    for (i = 0 ; i < 16 ; i++) {
> > > +        virDomainChrDefPtr chr = NULL;
> > > +        char *ret;
> > > +        for (j = 0 ; j < vm->def->nserials ; j++)
> > > +            if (vm->def->serials[j]->dstPort == i)
> > > +                chr = vm->def->serials[j];
> > > +        if (chr)
> > > +            ret = umlBuildCommandLineChr(conn, chr, "ssl");
> > > +        else
> > > +            if (asprintf(&ret, "ssl%d=none", i) < 0)
> > > +                goto no_memory;
> > > +        ADD_ARG(ret);
> > > +    }
> > 
> >   I'm a bit puzzled by 16 is that an internal UML limit ?
> 
> Yes, thats a hardcoded user mode linux limit.

  well, maybe isolate that with a #define at the top of the module then,

Daniel

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