[libvirt] [PATCH 0/6] RFC: qemu: virtio-{non-}transitional support

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 12:01:00PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-01-15 at 17:06 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > virDomainNetDef is a mess because it *still* doesn't use a enum
> > for the device model :-(   We really must fix that rather than
> > blindly allowing arbitrary passthrough of hypervisor specific
> > names.
> > 
> > I recall Laine had patches for this some 4/5 years ago, but
> > can't remember why we never merged them.
> 
> Based on what I can recall from my own, more recent, attempt at
> fixing the mess, the main blocker was that in order to keep
> accepting all existing configurations you'd basically have to
> still store the model as a string and only at a later time
> convert it to an enum.

The enum should cover all existing reasonably expected configs. Sure I
imagine we might miss a few, especially for obscure architectures or
hypervisors, but that would just be bugs to be fixed

> So you'd end up making the code more complicated rather than
> simpler which, needless to say, makes the idea way less
> attractive :(

The key point of using an enum is to ensure that our esx/qemu/parallels
drivers all guaranteed to use the same model names, which a core benefit
that libvirt is supposed to be adding for applications.

Regards,
Daniel
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