[libvirt] [PATCH] Don't validate disk type in virsh attach-disk

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 11:18:24AM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Cole Robinson wrote:
> >> virsh attempts to validate the requested disk type, rather than just let
> >> the underlying driver do it. This was erroneously denying floppy device
> >> attaches. Patch attached.
> > 
> > Hi Cole,
> > Your patch would do the job.
> > Before:
> > 
> >   $ virsh -c test:///default attach-disk 1 s t --type floppy --mode readonly
> >   error: No support floppy in command 'attach-disk'
> > 
> > with the patch:
> > 
> >   $ virsh -c test:///default attach-disk 1 s t --type floppy --mode readonly
> >   error: this function is not supported by the hypervisor: virDomainAttachDevice
> > 
> > But consider what happens with e.g., "--type bogus".
> > Before, it'd mention the invalid type, "bogus".
> > With the patch, it doesn't (at least not using the test driver).
> > So maybe it'd be better to keep the up-front type check.
> > 
> 
> The idea here is that virsh isn't the one to decide. It could very well
> be that driver foo doesn't support cdrom devices, so even though virsh
> lets it through, it's still not valid. Only AttachDevice can give us the
> full picture.
> 
> Sounds like we should just implement AttachDevice for the test driver:
> it could parse the device xml and unconditionally insert it into the
> guest config. This would certainly be useful in testing the above virsh
> commands (and for testing device attaches in virt-manager, among others
> no doubt).

I concurr - the test driver should support all possible APIs and XML
element options that we have available - the more the better.

Daniel
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