[libvirt] [PATCH] news: Update release notes

[Peter Krempa]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 14:34:58 +0000, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 03:28:57PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 15:12:39 +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > > On 03/01/2018 02:15 PM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 14:08:29 +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > > >> Signed-off-by: --help <mprivozn at redhat.com>

[...]

> > > > Isn't this an internal change not really used for consumption of
> > > > clients?
> > > 
> > > Not really. Try it yourself:
> > > 
> > > virsh -c network:///system net-list --all
> > 
> > Well, that obviously has to work. But it's not exactly useful for
> > general usage:
> > 
> > $ virsh -c network:///system list --all
> > error: Failed to list active domains
> > error: this function is not supported by the connection driver: virConnectNumOfDomains
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Note that in general we don't promise *any* API is supported by *any*
> URI. The set of APIs provided by any given driver are documented in
> our page
> 
>      https://libvirt.org/hvsupport.html
> 
> So the fact that the network:/// URI doesn't support the listing
> of domains is not a bug. It is just an expected gap in the support
> matrix for that driver.
> 
> IOW, this is largely a documentation task - I still need to provide
> docs for the secondary drivers to describe this better.

I'm not saying it's a bug. I'm just pointing out that it's not really
useful by itself to open connection just to anything else than the VM
driver itself. Libvirt is a library used to manage VMs and that's the
main reason anybody will install it. I doubt that anybody would install
libvirt to manage storage or firewall, since there are way better
options to do so than our network/storage driver.
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