[libvirt] [PATCH 00/11] hyperv: add support for Hyper-V 2012 and newer.

[Matthias Bolte]

2017-03-30 18:47 GMT+02:00 Dawid Zamirski <dzamirski at datto.com>:
> Hello,
>
> The following patch series reworks the hyper-v driver structs and the
> code generator to provide seamless support for both Hyper-V 2008 and
> 2012 or newer. This does not implement any new libvirt APIs, it just
> adapts existing 2008-only driver to also handle 2012 and newer by
> sharing as much driver code as possible (currently it's all of it :-))
> This is needed to set the foundation before we can move forward with
> implementing the rest of the driver APIs.
>
> With 2012 release, Microsoft introduced "v2" version of Msvm_* WMI
> classes. Those are largely the same as "v1" (used in 2008) but have some
> new properties as well as need different wsman request URIs. To
> accomodate those differences, most of work went into the code generator
> so that it's "aware" of possibility of multiple versions of the same WMI
> class and produce C code accordingly.

I took a quick look at the series. Overall it looks very good and I
like the underlying approach.

I'll do a detailed review of it tomorrow.

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Matthias Bolte
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