[libvirt] RFC Parallels driver renaming

Maxim Nestratov mnestratov at parallels.com
Thu May 7 16:49:01 UTC 2015


07.05.2015 19:45, Daniel P. Berrange пишет:
> 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
Sure. This is the way I wanted to go.




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