[libvirt] PATCH: Allow automatic driver probe for remote TCP connections
Daniel Veillard
veillard at redhat.com
Thu Nov 27 17:30:58 UTC 2008
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 04:26:50PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:08:03PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > When connecting to a local libvirt you can let it automatically probe
> > the hypervisor URI if you don't know it ahead of time. This doesn't
> > work with remote URIs because you need to have something to put in
> > the URI scheme before the hostname
[...]
> > I'm thinking that perhaps we can just change the virGetVersion() apis
> > so that instead of looking in virDriverPtr struct, we just include the
> > version numbers directly in virGetVersion as a static const lookup
> > table. Meanwhile, this patch also includes a change to virsh to stop
> > it calling virGetVersion(), though this hunk instead intended to apply
> > to CVS.
>
> The attached patch does just this now - we remove the version field from
> the virDriverPtr, and just hardwire info for all compiled drivers into
> the virGetVersion impl directly, avoiding need to access the drivers
> which may not be present.
Okay, I initially though the driver versions would be more dynamic
but since we usually just use the libvirt version macro, well the patch
just reflects the status-quo,
fine, +1
Daniel
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