[libvirt] PATCH: Make VirtualBox domain IDs start from 1 instead of 0
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Tue Apr 21 19:15:38 UTC 2009
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:10:10PM +0200, Pritesh Kothari wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 April 2009 12:15:37 Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > The VirtualBox driver currently returns domain IDs starting from 0. The
> > domain ID 0 is reserved for a special scenario. It refers to a guest which
> > is also the host OS. ie its the guest in which libvirt is running. This
> > guest will only exist in virtualization technology where there is a
> > separate hypervisor / host OS, eg Xen or MicroSoft Hyper-V. Thus, it
> > should be avoided for drivers like QEMU or VirtualBox.
>
> oops, didn't knew this.
No problem - its a nice undocumented feature :-)
I've comitted this patch now.
Daniel
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