[libvirt] [PATCH 0/6] Improve backing store error reporting

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 07:47:46PM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> Peter Krempa (6):
>   util:  Add function to check if a virStorageSource is "empty"
>   qemu: Drop unused formatting of uuid
>   util: storage: Allow metadata crawler to report useful errors
>   qemu: Report better errors from broken backing chains
>   storage: Improve error message when traversing backing chains
>   qemu: Improve check for local storage
> 
>  src/libvirt_private.syms      |  1 +
>  src/qemu/qemu_domain.c        | 38 ++++++--------------------------------
>  src/qemu/qemu_process.c       |  5 ++---
>  src/security/virt-aa-helper.c |  2 +-
>  src/storage/storage_driver.c  | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  src/storage/storage_driver.h  |  3 ++-
>  src/util/virstoragefile.c     | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  src/util/virstoragefile.h     |  1 +
>  tests/virstoragetest.c        |  2 +-
>  9 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)

I don't suppose you found a way to test this?  I'd like to, but it's
difficult (especially without qemu:///session working as root).

I'll have to fire up a VM with a patched libvirtd at some point, but
not today.

Rich.

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