[libvirt] [PATCH 5/5] Add new domblkinfo command to virsh

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Apr 28 10:59:33 UTC 2010


On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 05:00:22PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/27/2010 01:35 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >   virsh # domblkinfo demoguest /dev/hda2
> >   Capacity:       1048576000
> >   Allocation:     104857600
> >   Physical:       104857600
> > 
> > * tools/virsh.c: Implement domblkinfo command mapping to the
> >   new virDomainGetBlockInfo API
> 
> And the changes to tools/virsh.pod?
> 
> >  /*
> > + * "domblkinfo" command
> > + */
> > +static const vshCmdInfo info_domblkinfo[] = {
> > +    {"help", N_("domain information")},
> > +    {"desc", N_("Returns basic information about the domain.")},
> 
> Seems like too much copy and paste from dominfo.  Maybe:
> 
> Returns information about a block device used by the domain.

Yeah, I was rather fast & loose with this patch :-)

> 
> > +static const vshCmdOptDef opts_domblkinfo[] = {
> > +    {"domain", VSH_OT_DATA, VSH_OFLAG_REQ, N_("domain name, id or uuid")},
> > +    {"device", VSH_OT_DATA, VSH_OFLAG_REQ, N_("block device")},
> > +    {NULL, 0, 0, NULL}
> > +};
> 
> Is there an easy way to query all of the block devices currently tied to
> a domain, so that it is possible to script a loop that calls domblkinfo
> for each of those devices?  Or would we need to add a new command, maybe
> 'domblkinfo uuid --all', in addition to your implementation of
> 'domblkinfo uuid blk'.

To query all block devices, you want to do an xpath query on the guest
XML & then iterate on them. This is probably something worth doing, but
we can do it as a followup to apply to domblkstats and domifstats at the
same time.


Daniel
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