[libvirt] [RFC] Expose cpu_map.xml via API

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> writes:

> On 08/19/2013 01:22 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> Or potentially generic-ify this a bit more to make it like a
>> virConnectHypervisorCapabilities() where right now it just returns back the
>> CPUs the HV can emulate. In the future it can have support for other things
>> if we need it to.
>
> Listing all the capabilities of all the emulators in the existing
> virConnectHypervisorCapabilities may be too much XML for one RPC call;
> so a new API that lets us focus on one particular emulator is
> worthwhile.  But yes, this is a better scheme to be copying from - we
> want a command where the user specifies an emulator, and the output is
> XML describing that emulator's capabilities according to what libvirt
> can expose.

thank you both for the input.  I will rename the new function to
virConnectGetHypervisorCapabilities and add a flags argument that
controls what capabilities are included in the XML; for now both _ALL
and _CPUS will return the same XML.

Giuseppe