[libvirt] RFC Parallels driver renaming

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu May 7 16:45:45 UTC 2015


On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 07:34:09PM +0300, Maxim Nestratov wrote:
> 07.05.2015 18:53, Daniel P. Berrange пишет:
> >So for the URI, we need to keep compatibility with existing syntax.
> >That doesn't mean we can't rename the URI to have a vz:// prefix,
> >but the code would have to still permit the old parallels:// prefix
> >forever.
> >
> >Also, anywhere in the XML which refers to the parallels will have to
> >continue to refer to that. For example <domain type="parallels">
> >cannot be changed, and virConnectGetType() will have to continue to
> >return "Parallels". I can't remember if there are any other similar
> >places.
> Ok. I'll keep backward compatibility in my changes.

BTW, rather than doing all the changes in one single patch, it'd be
preferrable to split it up into several stages - large renaming
patches tend to get quite hard to follow if too much is changed in
one go

Regards,
Daniel
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