[libvirt] [RFC PATCH 0/6] New API to normalize the device XML

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:13:59AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 01/10/2012 09:55 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > These 2 things feel like overloading the API with two different
> > semantics. On the one hand I see a simple  XML -> struct -> XML
> > transformation, which is driver indepedant and does not need to
> > get any HV state.  I call this canonicalization
> 
> We still want it to be connection-dependent, though, so that the
> canonicalization is tied to the version of the driver the user is
> connected to, and not to the version of the libvirt.so client, in the
> case where the driver and client are at different versions.

Oh sure, still needs to run server side - we can have 1 shared impl
that can be pulled in by all drivers - as we do for nodeinfo stuff
that's shared.

Daniel
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