[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Allow the user to specify vendor and product for disk

[Osier Yang]

On 2012年11月08日 05:04, Dave Allan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 11:24:43PM +0800, Osier Yang wrote:
>> On 2012年11月05日 21:34, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>>> On 11/05/2012 08:04 AM, Osier Yang wrote:
>>>> QEMU supports to set vendor and product strings for disk since
>>>> 1.2.0 (only scsi-disk, scsi-hd, scsi-cd support it), this patch
>>>> exposes it with new XML elements<vendor>   and<product>   of disk
>>>> device.
>>>> ---
>>>>   docs/formatdomain.html.in                          |   10 +++++
>>>>   docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng                      |   10 +++++
>>>>   src/conf/domain_conf.c                             |   30 ++++++++++++++++
>>>>   src/conf/domain_conf.h                             |    2 +
>>>>   src/qemu/qemu_command.c                            |   29 ++++++++++++++++
>>>>   .../qemuxml2argv-disk-scsi-disk-vpd.args           |   13 +++++++
>>>>   .../qemuxml2argv-disk-scsi-disk-vpd.xml            |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>   tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c                           |    4 ++
>>>>   8 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>>   create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-scsi-disk-vpd.args
>>>>   create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-scsi-disk-vpd.xml
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
>>>> index c8da33d..cc9e871 100644
>>>> --- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in
>>>> +++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
>>>> @@ -1657,6 +1657,16 @@
>>>>           of 16 hexadecimal digits.
>>>>           <span class='since'>Since 0.10.1</span>
>>>>         </dd>
>>>> +<dt><code>vendor</code></dt>
>>>> +<dd>If present, this element specifies the vendor of a virtual hard
>>>> +        disk or CD-ROM device. It's a not more than 8 bytes alphanumeric string.
>>>
>>> Last sentence doesn't make sense, I suggest changing it to either: "It
>>> can't be longer than 8 alphanumeric characters." or simply "Maximum 8
>>> alphanumeric characters."
>>
>> Okay, honestly, I wasn't comfortable with the sentence, but can't
>> get a better one at that time, :-) I will change your advise a bit:
>>
>> It must not be longer than 8 alphanumeric characters.
>
> Not to be pedantic, but what happens if you hand it doublebyte
> characters?

Ah, good question, though QEMU will truncate the string to 8 bytes
anyway, should we do some translation in libvirt? the problem is
how to map the doublebytes vendors/product to single bytes ones,
is there some public specification available? /me starts to think
if it's snake leg (or breaking fly on the wheel) to do the checking
if it's too heavy.

Regards,
Osier