[libvirt] Xen device section defaults miss name='qemu'

Christian Ehrhardt christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com
Mon Jul 17 14:42:24 UTC 2017


On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 12:27 AM, Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com> wrote:

> On 07/11/2017 08:15 AM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
>
>>
>> What happens is that before the changes this auto-added a driver section
>> like:
>>     <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
>> But now it does only add
>>     <driver type='raw'/>
>> Which fails to verify like:
>>
>
> I think you forgot to paste the example here, but I assume it is something
> like
>
> # virt-xml-validate test.xml
> Relax-NG validity error : Extra element devices in interleave
> test.xml:21: element devices: Relax-NG validity error : Element domain
> failed to validate content
> test.xml fails to validate
>

Yes that was the case I've seen.

where test.xml contains disk config
>
>     <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
>       <driver type='raw'/>
>       <target dev='hdb' bus='ide'/>
>       <readonly/>
>       <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='1'/>
>     </disk>
>

As your example or even no <driver> at all - that in the past also got the
defaults and no isn't.


> It is not clear to me if 'name' is a required attribute of <disk>. The doc
> says "If the hypervisor supports multiple backend drivers, then the name
> attribute selects the primary backend driver name". It doesn't mention
> "required" or "mandatory". We'd have a schema bug if 'name' is optional. I
> guess it is a good question for danpb. Dan, is disk/driver/@name a required
> attribute?
>

 Prepping my patch, but surely if the fix is to just relax the relaxng to
not have it required I'm good as well.
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