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

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:46:11PM +0100, Erik Skultety wrote:
> 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?

Good point, i'll look at that.  Since this series is acked, I might as well
post docs separately now.


Regards,
Daniel
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