[libvirt] [PATCH perl-Sys-Virt] Don't die if snapshots are unsupported

Mike Latimer mlatimer at suse.com
Mon Apr 21 20:19:12 UTC 2014


Many libvirt-tck tests do not explicitly cleanup test domains before exiting.
In this case Sys::Virt::TCK->cleanup is triggered, and the environment is
reset automatically. During this reset, any existing snapshots are found for
deletion through Sys::Virt::Domain->list_snapshots. If the underlying
connection driver does not support snapshot functions (such as lxc or libxl),
the process dies with the following error:

libvirt error code: 3, message: this function is not supported by the
 connection driver: virDomainSnapshotListNames

The best resolution would be to add snapshot support to the driver(s), but as
this requires a long term effort, it is better to catch the error and return
an empty list of snapshots to the calling function. In the case of
libvirt-tck, this allows the cleanup to succeed and subsequent testing to
continue normally.

---
 Domain.pm |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/lib/Sys/Virt/Domain.pm	2014-04-07 04:35:31.000000000 -0600
+++ b/lib/Sys/Virt/Domain.pm	2014-04-21 13:48:22.868956838 -0600
@@ -1416,7 +1416,10 @@ recommended as a more efficient alternat
 sub list_snapshots {
     my $self = shift;
 
-    my $nnames = $self->num_of_snapshots();
+    # If snapshots are not supported by the driver (lxc, libxl...), catch the
+    # function not supported error and simply return as there are no snapshots
+    my $nnames = eval { $self->num_of_snapshots() };
+    return if($@ =~ /function is not supported/);
     my @names = $self->list_snapshot_names($nnames);
 
     my @snapshots;




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