[libvirt] [libvirt-php] bug in libvirt_domain_change_vcpus()

Michal Novotny minovotn at redhat.com
Tue Sep 10 16:36:25 UTC 2013


On 09/10/2013 10:09 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:51:54PM +0200, Michal Novotny wrote:
>> Hi Olivier,
>> this is not really a bug as it's intended. The
>> libvirt_domain_change_vcpus() is not the same as (yet unimplemented)
>> virDomainSetVcpus() API so it's not bug. I realize that naming could be
>> a little confusing so if you like, feel free to rename
>> libvirt_domain_change_vcpus() to libvirt_domain_xml_change_vcpus() as
>> this API should be used to change number of vCPUS in the domain XML
>> itself and implement libvirt_domain_set_vcpus() calling real
>> virDomainSetVcpus() API function.
> That function is also buggy in that it will silently turn a transient
> guest into a persistent guest, which is almost certainly not what a
> caller would expect
>
> Daniel
Thanks for information Daniel. You are correct. I did change the
implementation to use virDomainSetVcpusFlags() API function instead.
It's already committed to git [1].

Michal

[1]
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-php.git;a=commit;h=cff010a36e382ee26c10a8e467d61de75a73639b

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