[libvirt] VirtualBox 5 support

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Fri, 2016-05-20 at 09:39 -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
> On 05/20/2016 06:58 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 12:51:11PM +0200, Martin Pietsch wrote:
> > > 
> > > Dear libvirt-developer-team,
> > > 
> > > I want to manage virtual machine of VirtualBox with libvirt. In a test
> > > I found out, that VirtualBox 5 is not support by the current version of
> > > libvirt. For this reason I have added this support in the source code.
> > > Now I want to commit these changes to the libvirt project, but I do not
> > > know, if there are any interests. Who can help me?
> > We are always interested to receive patches from willing contributors,
> > especially for drivers like VirtualBox which do not have a large active
> > set of people contributing.
> > 
> > For first-time contributors to libvirt the best place to start is reading
> > the "hacking" guidelines:
> > 
> >     http://libvirt.org/hacking.html
> > 
> > My specific top points for new contributors people are
> > 
> >   - Always make patches against latest git master
> > 
> >   - Create a series of patches (commits), each patch focusing on solving
> >     a specific self-contained problem, rather than 1 single huge patch.
> > 
> >   - Ensure 'make syntax-check' passes after applying each patch
> 
> "and make check" :-). An easy way to perform these two checks for every 
> commit on a branch is this:
> 
>      git rebase -i master -x "make -j8 syntax-check && make -j8 check"
> 
> If there is an error at any step, make and git will stop and allow you 
> to fix the problem, add the modifications to the commit, and continue 
> (with "git rebase --continue"). If there are no errors, the two make 
> commands will be run on every commit on the branch without requiring 
> user intervention.

You can also add

  EDITOR=true

at the beginning of the command to make it entirely non-interactive,
ie. removing the need to even confirm the rebase in your editor.

Thanks Martin for the tip, by the way :)

-- 
Andrea Bolognani
Software Engineer - Virtualization Team