[libvirt] PATCH: Another attempt to fix vbox driver open

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 05:42:07PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The patches we just applied for the VirtualBox  open method still were 
> not quite right. It would return VIR_DRV_OPEN_DECLINED when uri==NULL,
> but before doing so it would have set conn->uri to vbox:///session. So
> even though it declined the connection, all the later drivers would now
> ignore it.  Also, it now returns DECLINED for some real errors that
> should be reported to the user.
> 
> Here's an alternative idea I've had for trying to address this. Some 
> goals:
> 
>  - If the user gives a URI with a vbox:///  prefix, we should always
>    handle it, unless a 'server' is set when we leave it to the remote
>    driver
>  - If an invalid path is given we must give back a real error code
>  - If after deciding the URI is for us, any initialization fails
>    we must raise an error.
>  - If the vbox glue layer is missing, we should still raise errors
>    for requested URIs, so user knows their URI is correct.
Looks very sensible to me and much nicer than my original suggestion to
move VBoxCGlueInit() early into vboxOpen.

[..snip..] 
> +                  _("no VirtualBox drviver path specified (try vbox:///session)"));
s/drviver/driver/

Cheers,
 -- Guido