[libvirt] [PATCH 01/16] LXC driver: started implementing connectDomainXMLFromNative

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

Hi Dan,

On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 13:17 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> This data format looks really very close to the .vmx file format.
> The main difference I see is that the right hand side of the =
> sign does not require quotes.
> 
> We already have a src/util/virconf.{c,h} module which was originally
> designed to parse Xen's python-like config files. It was then extended
> to cope with .vmx files. It seems like it should be easy to extend it
> to handle the lxc file format too. 
> 
> eg define a new VIR_CONF_FLAG_LXC_FORMAT  flag for it parser to honour

Good to know... I wasn't aware of that. I'll have a look at it to share
as much code as possible.

> > diff --git a/tests/lxcconf2xmldata/lxcconf2xml.fstab b/tests/lxcconf2xmldata/lxcconf2xml.fstab
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..a08b2d6
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/tests/lxcconf2xmldata/lxcconf2xml.fstab
> > @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
> > +proc            proc         proc	nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
> > +sysfs           sys          sysfs	defaults  0 0
> > +tmpfs           run          tmpfs	mode=0755,nodev,nosuid 0 0
> 
> Hmm, how are the fstab files handled ? The virConnectDomainNativeToXML
> API only allows a single config file to be passed into ?

I assumed we could get the fstab file from the config file corresponding
entry. Of course for the unit tests I had to tweak that a bit. If we
can't assume fstab can be fetched, then what could we do?

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Cedric