[libvirt] [PATCH 2/7] libvirt: pass a directory path into drivers for embedded usage

[Cole Robinson]

On 12/2/19 10:03 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> The intent here is to allow the virt drivers to be run directly embedded
> in an arbitrary process without interfering with libvirtd. To achieve
> this they need to store all their configuration & state in a separate
> directory tree from the main system or session libvirtd instances.
> 
> This can be useful for doing testing of the virt drivers in "make check"
> without interfering with the user's own libvirtd instances.
> 
> It can also be used for applications using KVM/QEMU as a piece of
> infrastructure to build an service, rather than for general purpose
> OS hosting. A long standing example is libguestfs, which would prefer
> if its temporary VMs did show up in the main libvirtd VM list, because
> this confuses apps such as OpenStack Nova. A more recent example would
> be Kata which is using KVM as a technology to build containers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com>

- Cole