[libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] networking API for hostonly networks in VirtualBox driver in libvirt

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:17:17PM +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:12:21PM +0200, Pritesh Kothari wrote:
> 
> > +/**
> > + * The Network Functions here on
> > + */
> > +static virDrvOpenStatus vboxNetworkOpen(virConnectPtr conn,
> > +                                        virConnectAuthPtr auth
> > ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
> > +                                        int flags ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED) {
> > +    vboxGlobalData *data = conn->privateData;
> [...]
> > +    DEBUG0("network intialized");
> > +    /* conn->networkPrivateData = some network specific data */
> > +    return VIR_DRV_OPEN_SUCCESS;
> [...]
> > +static int vboxNetworkClose(virConnectPtr conn) {
> > +    DEBUG0("network unintialized");
> > +    conn->networkPrivateData = NULL;
> > +    return 0;
> > +}
> 
>   You really don't need to keep any data about the networking driver
> in libvirt(d) itself ?

Nah, this is fine in the virtualbox case. The driver is essentially
a stateless driver, the only info being the RPC function tables 
which are stored in conn->privateData. 

Daniel
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