[libvirt] [PATCH 00/10] Enable direct use of secondary drivers

[Erik Skultety]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 01:35:27PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> Currently the secondary drivers can only be used if you have a
> connection to a primary hypervisor driver. This series introduces
> explicit URIs that allow opening a connection that only talks to a
> specific secondary driver. In the future these URIs will resolve to
> individual daemons containing those drivers.
>
> This also allows us to fix long standing problems with most code that
> uses secrets internally. We need to pass a virConnectPtr into such code
> but some call stacks don't have a connection available. In some cases we
> open a temporary connection to the QEMU driver, but this is suboptimal
> for deployments without the QEMU driver present.
>
> Daniel P. Berrangé (10):
>   storage: move driver registration back to end of the file
>   storage: allow opening with storage:///system and storage:///session
>     URIs
>   network: move driver registration back to end of the file
>   network: allow opening with network:///system and network:///session
>     URIs
>   nwfilter: allow opening with nwfilter:///system URI
>   interface: allow opening with interface:///system and
>     interface:///session URIs
>   nodedev: allow opening with nodedev:///system and nodedev:///session
>     URIs
>   secret: allow opening with secret:///system and secret:///session URIs
>   storage: open secret driver connection at time of use
>   storage: remove virConnectPtr from all backend functions

Doc update would be nice as well, or are you planning on adding that as part of
separate series?

Erik