[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Fix connectGetType() API

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 03:06:29PM +0200, Michal Novotny wrote:
> This patch fixes qemuConnectGetType() API function to return KVM if
> appropriate, i.e. when /dev/kvm exists as the KVM module is loaded.
> No further check is being done so it's merely showing the possibility
> that KVM virtualization is available on the host however we don't
> have any guest information (as it's connection-only related) so we
> cannot sure we can use KVM. This can be useful to identify we have
> KVM (Virt Support) available on the host if host and guest archs
> are the same.

NACK, you are confusing two different things. virConnectGetType
is intended to return the libvirt driver name. This is *always*
'QEMU'.

If you want to know whether kvm virt is possible or not, then
query the capabilities XML.

Daniel
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