[libvirt] [RFC] events scripts support

[Stefan Berger]

libvir-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 03/23/2010 08:12:57 AM:


> 
> Please respond to "Daniel P. Berrange"
> 

> > 
> > This is a new kind of API in libvirt(d) so I'm submitting this for
> > review. There could be some challenging issues, for example naming
> > i.e. is the object "external" name like 'foo' the right thing to pass
> > or should we also provide the uuid, making sure the arguments for the
> > scripts and the behaviour is generic enough, and also how to handle
> > potential recursion and avoid deadlock if the events script happen to
> > use libvirt.
> 
> You have to mandate that synchronous hooks never call back into libvirt,
> allowing them todo so will be unfeasible.

Right. Since libvirt maintains all information about a VM the 'temptation' 
may be there to 'need' to pull information about the VM from within that 
script. I guess deadlocks would be typical.

   Stefan


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