[libvirt] [PATCH] Canonicalize qemu machine types

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 01:56:21PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 07/23/2009 01:34 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > Hey,
> >         Here's a series of patches to implement danpb's suggestion of
> > using 'qemu -M ?' to probe for valid machine types and then to build
> > on that for the machine type canonicalization.
> > 
> 
> What's the speed difference of GetCapabilities after these patches? Not
> that it needs to be fast, but it would be useful to know if it's
> slowwwwwwww.

Urgh, I forgot that that re-builds capabilities on every invocation :-(
It might be better to move the refresh into the SIGHUP handler, and
have an RPM %trigger  against 'qemu' install to send libvirt SIGHUP

Daniel
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