[libvirt] [PATCH 6/7] VMware ESX: Add esxDomainUndefine() based on esxVI_UnregisterVM()

[Daniel Veillard]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 06:54:14PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> 2009/9/4 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com>:
> > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 06:45:54PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> >> * src/esx/esx_driver.c: add esxDomainUndefine() based on
> >>   esxVI_UnregisterVM()
> >> * src/esx/esx_vi_methods.[ch]: add esxVI_UnregisterVM()
> >
> >  Looks fine, there is just that small limitiation
> >
> > +    if (powerState != esxVI_VirtualMachinePowerState_Suspended &&
> > +        powerState != esxVI_VirtualMachinePowerState_PoweredOff) {
> > +        ESX_ERROR(domain->conn, VIR_ERR_OPERATION_INVALID,
> > +                  "Domain is not suspended or powered off");
> > +        goto failure;
> >
> >  I don't think we have that restriction of non-running domain
> > in other drivers, but I think it's fine to error then, just a driver
> > specific behaviour.
> >
> 
> ESX won't let you undefine/unregister a domain that's running, that's
> the reason for this check. When the domain is suspended or powered
> off, then the complete status of that domain has been written to disk,
> so it's save to unregister it.

  Okay, I was expecting this, that's really an hypervisor restriction
and the driver behaviour is based on it, fine.

  thanks,

Daniel

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