[libvirt] [RFC] Power Hypervisor Libvirt support

[Eduardo Otubo]

Hello again, 

I very am glad with all the feedback I got. The following attachtment is
the result of the work using all the suggestions the list made. I also
have a few comments over this new RFC. Here is a little Changelog:

* Now the URI is recognized as phyp://user@hmc/managed_system. To use
path component of the uri struct, I had to implement a little function
to strip out the first slash of the string, giving me only 'path',
instead of '/path'.

* I implemented the option --with-libssh and --with-phyp right according
to what Daniel Berrange suggested.

* Now all the variable-size string buffers are manipulated with the
internal API virBuffer* to make it safer.

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+- This made me think and change the __inner_exec_command function. Now
it returns char * with all the textual return, and I am passing int * as
reference to get the exit status - all the information I need about the
remote executed command.

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+- And this also made me write a little auxiliar function to strip out
the '\n' from the textual return.

Known and unsolved issues:

* Authentication - need to improve the authenticantion as Daniel
Berrange said. Still in progress.
* Error codes.
* Logging and debugging messages.

Any comments are welcome,

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Em Sex, 2009-03-20 às 13:58 -0300, Eduardo Otubo escreveu:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been working on a libvirt extension to manage IBM's Power VMs
> (LPARs). The Power systems are managed through management console
> referred to as the HMC or using a management partition (IVM). Both HMC
> and IVM runs an SSH, then you can reach it via command line, and an HTTP
> server, then you can reach it via web browser.
> 
> The protocol between the console and the partition (LPAR) is not
> disclosed, therefore I propose the driver to execute commands remoetly
> over an SSH connection to the consoles to manage IBM LPARs.
> 
> The patch attached is the first scratch of the driver that will interact
> with HMC over a SSH connection. The URI model that is
> used in virsh command line is:
> 
> virsh --conect phyp://$user@$server
> 
> Some known issues are:
>  * Next step is to make the URI like this: phyp://$user@
> $HMC/@managed_system. Almost finished. What it takes now is
> $server = $HMC = $managed_system.
>  * Next features in my TODO list are "resume", "stop" and "reboot" the
> LPAR.
> 
> Any comments are welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
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Eduardo Otubo
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