[libvirt] [PATCHv2] esx: Support folders in the path of vpx:// connection URIs

[Matthias Bolte]

2011/11/1 Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>:
> On 11/01/2011 10:21 AM, Matthias Bolte wrote:
>>
>> Allow the datacenter and compute resource parts of the path
>> to be prefixed with folders. Therefore, the way the path is
>> parsed has changed. Before, it was split in 2 or 3 items and
>> the items' meanings were determined by their positions. Now
>> the path can have 2 or more items and the the vCenter server
>> is asked whether a folder, datacenter of compute resource
>> with the specified name exists at the current hierarchy level.
>>
>> Before the datacenter and compute resource lookup automatically
>> traversed folders during lookup. This is logic got removed
>> and folders have to be specified explicitly.
>>
>> The proper datacenter path including folders is now used when
>> accessing a datastore over HTTPS. This makes virsh dumpxml
>> and define work for datacenters in folders.
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732676
>
> Looks reasonable and passed a compile test for me.  I'm not set up to test
> it very well, but it looked like you properly handled errors without leaks,
> and that it adds more flexibility into the parsing while still supporting
> older styles, so I don't think it will cause regressions.
>
> ACK.

Thanks, pushed.

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