[libvirt] [PATCH 0/2] Introduce two new virsh commands

[Dave Allan]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:41:08PM +0800, Osier Yang wrote:
> On 2011年06月30日 00:26, Eric Blake wrote:
> >On 06/29/2011 06:19 AM, Osier Yang wrote:
> >>These two patches is to introduce two new virsh commands, one is
> >>eject-media, which is to eject media from CD or floppy drive, the other
> >>is insert-media, which is to insert media into CD or floppy drive.
> >>
> >>There are commands existed can be used to eject/insert media, such as
> >>"update-device", but it's not quite easy to use. That's the original
> >>intention of these patches.
> >>
> >>Both of the two commands only allow to operate on CDROM or floppy disk.
> >>
> >>[PATCH 1/2] virsh: Introduce two new commands to insert or eject media
> >>[PATCH 2/2] doc: Add docs for two new introduced commands
> >
> >I think that we will eventually need even more; therefore, I'm thinking
> >a more generic 'change-disk' command would be better than two specific
> >'eject-media' and 'insert-media' commands.  Recent qemu added [1]:
> >
> >  o blockdev-tray-open: opens the drive tray. Also Supports removing the
> >inserted
> >    media. The BLOCK_TRAY_OPEN event is emitted if this command succeeds.
> >  o blockdev-tray-close: closes a drive tray. The BLOCK_TRAY_CLOSE event is
> >    emitted.
> >  o blockdev-media-insert: Inserts a media in the tray. The tray must empty
> >    and already opened. No event is emitted.
> >
> >along with updating to 'eject' and 'change' in terms of these more
> >fundamental operations.
> >
> >[1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-06/msg00381.html
> 
> There is no news for the these qemu patches since June. Should we
> still wait for that?
> 
> We don't have to wait for the qemu patches if we seperate the media
> and tray management in virsh. i.e.
> 
>     insert-media & eject-media: for media management.
>     tray-open & tray-close: for tray management (in future)
> 
>     OR
> 
>     change-media: for media management
>     change-tray: for tray management
> 
> Before the qemu introduce news monitor commands for media management,
> we can use current updateDeviceFlags API (which uses qemu's "change"),
> after the qemu commands for media management is introduced, we can
> add a simple switch to honor them. (Of course, we need to introduce
> new events support if qemu supports to emit events, but that's a
> separate work from virsh's point of view).
> 
> On the other hand, from a user's point of view, separating management
> of media and tray could be more clear. However, having all the
> management scenarios for both tray and media in one command could be
> a bit confused.
> 
> Thoughts?

I think there's a use for a syntactic sugar command for changing the
media which can be done today with update device.  That command
shouldn't depend on the additionally useful command for
opening/closing the tray.

Dave


> Regards,
> Osier
> 
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