virDomainGetFSInfo returns a list of filesystems information mounted in the
guest, which contains mountpoints, device names, filesystem types, and
device aliases named by libvirt. This will be useful, for example, to
specify mountpoints to fsfreeze when taking snapshot of a part of disks.
Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com>
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away it has been decided
that libvirt will manage not only domains but host as well. And
with my latest work on qemu driver supporting huge pages, we miss
the cherry on top: an API to allocate huge pages on the run.
Currently users are forced to log into the host and adjust the
huge pages pool themselves. However, with this API the problem
is gone - they can both size up and size down the pool.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This commit (finally) adds the virDomainBlockCopy API, with the
intent that it will provide more power to the existing 'virsh
blockcopy' command.
'virsh blockcopy' was first added in Apr 2012 (v0.9.12), which
corresponds to the upstream qemu 1.2 timeframe. It was done as
a hack on top of the existing virDomainBlockRebase() API call,
for two reasons: 1) it was targetting a feature that landed first
in downstream RHEL qemu, but had not stabilized in upstream qemu
at the time (and indeed, 'drive-mirror' only landed upstream in
qemu 1.3 with slight differences to the first RHEL attempt,
and later gained further parameters like granularity and buf-size
that are also worth exposing), and 2) extending an existing API
allowed it to be backported without worrying about bumping .so
versions. A virDomainBlockCopy() API was proposed at that time
[1], but we decided not to accept it into libvirt until after
upstream qemu stabilized, and it ended up getting scrapped.
Whether or not RHEL should have attempted adding a new feature
without getting it upstream first is a debate that can be held
another day; but enough time has now elapsed that we are ready to
do the interface cleanly.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-April/msg00768.html
Delaying the creation of a clean API until now has also had a
benefit: we've only recently learned of a few shortcomings in the
original design: 1) it is unable to target a network destination
(such as a gluster volume) because it hard-coded the assumption
that the destination is a local file name. Because of all the
refactoring we've done to add virStorageSourcePtr, we are in a
better position to declare an API that parses XML describing a
host storage source as the copy destination, which was not
possible had we implemented virDomainBlockCopy as it had been
originally envisioned (although a network target will have to wait
until a later libvirt release compared to the API addition to
actually be implemented). 2) the design of using MiB/sec as the
bandwidth throttle is rather coarse; qemu is actually tuned to
bytes/second, and libvirt is preventing access to that level of
detail. A later patch will add flags to existing block job API
that can request bytes/second instead of back-compat MiB/s, but as
this is a new API, we can get it right to begin with.
At least I had the foresight to create 'virsh blockcopy' as a
separate command at the UI level (commit 1f06c00) rather than
leaking the underlying API overload of virDomainBlockRebase onto
shell users.
A further note on the bandwidth option: virTypedParameters
intentionally lacks unsigned long (since variable-width
interaction between mixed 32- vs. 64-bit client/server setups is
nasty), but we have to deal with the fact that we are interacting
with existing older code that mistakenly chose unsigned long
bandwidth at a point before we decided to prohibit it in all new
API. The typed parameter is therefore unsigned long long, but
the implementation (in a later patch) will have to do overflow
detection on 32-bit platforms, as well as capping the value to
match the LLONG_MAX>>20 cap of the existing MiB/s interfaces.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (virDomainBlockCopy): New API.
(virDomainBlockJobType, virConnectDomainEventBlockJobStatus):
Update related documentation.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainBlockCopy): Implement it.
* src/libvirt_public.syms (LIBVIRT_1.2.8): Export it.
* src/driver.h (_virDriver): New driver callback.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
The motivation for this API is that management layers that use libvirt
usually poll for statistics using various split up APIs we currently
provide. To get all the necessary stuff, the app needs to issue a lot of
calls and aggregate the results.
The APIs I'm introducing here:
1) Returns data in a format that we can expand in the future and is
(pseudo) hierarchical. The data is returned as typed parameters where
the fields are constructed as dot-separated strings containing names and
other stuff in a list of typed params.
2) Stats for multiple (all) domains can be queried at once and are
returned in one call. This will decrease the overhead necessary to issue
multiple calls per domain multiplied by the count of domains.
3) Selectable (bit mask) fields in the returned format. This will allow
to retrieve only specific stats according to the app's need.
The stats groups will be enabled using a bit field @stats passed as the
function argument. A few sample stats groups that this API will support:
VIR_DOMAIN_STATS_STATE
VIR_DOMAIN_STATS_CPU
VIR_DOMAIN_STATS_BLOCK
VIR_DOMAIN_STATS_INTERFACE
(Note that this is only an example, the initial implementation supports
only VIR_DOMAIN_STATS_STATE while others will be added later.)
the returned typed params will use the following scheme
state.state = VIR_DOMAIN_RUNNING
state.reason = VIR_DOMAIN_RUNNING_BOOTED (the actual values according to
the enum)
cpu.count = 8
cpu.0.state = running
cpu.0.time = 1234
Instead of maintaining two very similar APIs, add the "@mac" parameter
to virNetworkGetDHCPLeases and kill virNetworkGetDHCPLeasesForMAC. Both
of those functions would return data the same way, so making @mac an
optional filter simplifies a lot of stuff.
Introduce 3 new APIs, virNetworkGetDHCPLeases, virNetworkGetDHCPLeasesForMAC
and virNetworkDHCPLeaseFree.
* virNetworkGetDHCPLeases: returns the dhcp leases information for a given
virtual network.
For DHCPv4, the information returned:
- Network Interface Name
- Expiry Time
- MAC address
- IAID (NULL)
- IPv4 address (with type and prefix)
- Hostname (can be NULL)
- Client ID (can be NULL)
For DHCPv6, the information returned:
- Network Interface Name
- Expiry Time
- MAC address
- IAID (can be NULL, only in rare cases)
- IPv6 address (with type and prefix)
- Hostname (can be NULL)
- Client DUID
Note: @mac, @iaid, @ipaddr, @clientid are in ASCII form, not raw bytes.
Note: @expirytime can 0, in case the lease is for infinite time.
* virNetworkGetDHCPLeasesForMAC: returns the dhcp leases information for a
given virtual network and specified MAC Address.
* virNetworkDHCPLeaseFree: allows the upper layer application to free the
network interface object conveniently.
There is no support for flags, so user is expected to pass 0 for
both the APIs.
include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in:
* Define virNetworkGetDHCPLeases
* Define virNetworkGetDHCPLeasesForMAC
* Define virNetworkDHCPLeaseFree
src/driver.h:
* Define networkGetDHCPLeases
* Define networkGetDHCPLeasesForMAC
src/libvirt.c:
* Implement virNetworkGetDHCPLeases
* Implement virNetworkGetDHCPLeasesForMAC
* Implement virNetworkDHCPLeaseFree
src/libvirt_public.syms:
* Export the new symbols
The aim of the API is to get information on number of free pages
on the system. The API behaves similar to the
virNodeGetCellsFreeMemory(). User passes starting NUMA cell, the
count of nodes that he's interested in, pages sizes (yes,
multiple sizes can be queried at once) and the counts are
returned in an array.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
These APIs allow users to get or set time in a domain, which may come
handy if the domain has been resumed just recently and NTP is not
configured or hasn't kicked in yet and the guest is running
something time critical. In addition, NTP may refuse to re-set the clock
if the skew is too big.
In addition, new ACL attribute is introduced 'set_time'.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
These will freeze and thaw filesystems within guest specified by
@mountpoints parameters. The parameters can be NULL and 0, then all
mounted filesystems are frozen or thawed. @flags parameter, which are
currently not used, is for future extensions.
Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
--memory-only option is introduced without compression supported. Now qemu
has support for dumping domain's memory in kdump-compressed format. This
patch adds a new virDomainCoreDumpWithFormat API, so that the format in
which qemu dumps domain's memory can be specified.
Signed-off-by: Qiao Nuohan <qiaonuohan@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Define the public API for (de-)registering network events
and the callbacks for receiving lifecycle events. The lifecycle
event includes a 'detail' parameter to match the domain lifecycle
event data, but this is currently unused.
The network events related code goes into its own set of internal
files src/conf/network_event.[ch]
The new function virConnectGetCPUModelNames allows to retrieve the list
of CPU models known by the hypervisor for a specific architecture.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
With container based virt, it is useful to be able to pass
pre-opened file descriptors to the container init process.
This allows for containers to be auto-activated from incoming
socket connections, passing the active socket into the container.
To do this, introduce a pair of new APIs, virDomainCreateXMLWithFiles
and virDomainCreateWithFiles, which accept an array of file
descriptors. For the LXC driver, UNIX file descriptor passing
will be used to send them to libvirtd, which will them pass
them down to libvirt_lxc, which will then pass them to the container
init process.
This will only be implemented for LXC right now, but the design
is generic enough it could work with other hypervisors, hence
I suggest adding this to libvirt.so, rather than libvirt-lxc.so
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Add new API in order to set the balloon memory driver statistics collection
period in order to allow dynamic period adjustment for the virsh dommemstats to
display balloon stats data
This patch introduces two new APIs virDomainMigrate3 and
virDomainMigrateToURI3 that may be used in place of their older
variants. These new APIs take optional migration parameters (such as
bandwidth, domain XML, ...) in an array of virTypedParameters, which
makes adding new parameters easier as there's no need to introduce new
APIs whenever a new migration parameter needs to be added. Both APIs are
backward compatible and will automatically use older migration calls in
case the new calls are not supported as long as the typed parameters
array does not contain any parameter which was not supported by the
older calls.
Apps using libvirt will often have code like
if (virXXXX() < 0) {
virErrorPtr err = virGetLastError();
fprintf(stderr, "Something failed: %s\n",
err && err->message ? err->message :
"unknown error");
return -1;
}
Checking for a NULL error object or message leads to very
verbose code. A virGetLastErrorMessage() helper from libvirt
can simplify this to
if (virXXXX() < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Something failed: %s\n",
virGetLastErrorMessage());
return -1;
}
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The existing virNodeDeviceDettach() assumes that there is only a
single PCI device assignment backend driver appropriate for any
hypervisor. This is no longer true, as the qemu driver is getting
support for PCI device assignment via VFIO. The new API
virNodeDeviceDetachFlags adds a driverName arg that should be set to
the exact same string set in a domain <hostdev>'s <driver name='x'/>
element (i.e. "vfio", "kvm", or NULL for default). It also adds a
flags arg for good measure (and because it's possible we may need it
when we start dealing with VFIO's "device groups").
Since the name (like scsi_host10) is not stable for vHBA, (it can
be changed either after recreating or system rebooting), current
API virNodeDeviceLookupByName is not nice to use for management app
in this case. (E.g. one wants to destroy the vHBA whose name has
been changed after system rebooting, he has to find out current
name first).
Later patches will support the persistent vHBA via storage pool,
with which one can identify the vHBA stably by the wwnn && wwpn
pair.
So this new API comes.
Working with virTypedParameters in clients written in C is ugly and
requires all clients to duplicate the same code. This set of APIs makes
this code for manipulating with virTypedParameters integral part of
libvirt so that all clients may benefit from it.
This patch adds a new API, virDomainOpenChannel, that uses streams to
connect to a virtio channel on a guest. This creates a secure
communication channel between a guest and a libvirt client.
This behaves the same as virDomainOpenConsole, except on channels
instead of console/serial/parallel devices.
Add an API for sending signals to arbitrary processes in the
guest OS. This is primarily useful for container based virt,
but can be used for machine virt too, if there is a suitable
guest agent,
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in: Add virDomainSendProcessSignal
and virDomainProcessSignal enum
* src/driver.h: Driver entry point
* src/libvirt.c, src/libvirt_public.syms: Impl for new API
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
This will call FITRIM within guest. The API has 4 arguments,
however, only 2 will be used for now (@dom and @minumum).
The rest two are there if in future qemu guest agent learns them.
Adding a new API to obtain information about the
host node's present, online and offline CPUs.
int virNodeGetCPUMap(virConnectPtr conn,
unsigned char **cpumap,
unsigned int *online,
unsigned int flags);
The function will return the number of CPUs present on the host
or -1 on failure;
If cpumap is non-NULL virNodeGetCPUMap will allocate an array
containing a bit map representation of the online CPUs. It's
the callers responsibility to deallocate cpumap using free().
If online is non-NULL, the variable pointed to will contain
the number of online host node CPUs.
The variable flags has been added to support future extensions
and must be set to 0.
Extend the driver structure by nodeGetCPUMap entry in support of the
new API virNodeGetCPUMap.
Added implementation of virNodeGetCPUMap to libvirt.c
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
This patch adds a new public API virNetworkUpdate that will permit
updating an existing network configuration without requiring that the
network be destroyed/restarted for the changes to take effect.
A block commit moves data in the opposite direction of block pull.
Block pull reduces the chain length by dropping backing files after
data has been pulled into the top overlay, and is always safe; block
commit reduces the chain length by dropping overlays after data has
been committed into the backing file, and any files that depended
on base but not on top are invalidated at any point where they have
unallocated data that is now pointing to changed contents in base.
Both directions are useful, however: a qcow2 layer that is more than
50% allocated will typically be faster with a pull operation, while
a qcow2 layer with less than 50% allocation will be faster as a
commit operation. Committing across multiple layers can be more
efficient than repeatedly committing one layer at a time, but
requires extra support from the hypervisor.
This API matches Jeff Cody's proposed qemu command 'block-commit':
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-09/msg02226.html
Jeff's command is still in the works for qemu 1.3, and may gain
further enhancements, such as the ability to control on-error
handling (it will be comparable to the error handling Paolo is
adding to 'drive-mirror', so a similar solution will be needed
when I finally propose virDomainBlockCopy with more functionality
than the basics supported by virDomainBlockRebase). However, even
without qemu support, this API will be useful for _offline_ block
commits, by wrapping qemu-img calls and turning them into a block
job, so this API is worth committing now.
For some examples of how this will be implemented, all starting
with the chain: base <- snap1 <- snap2 <- active
+ These are equivalent:
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, NULL, NULL, 0, 0)
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, NULL, "active", 0, 0)
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, "base", NULL, 0, 0)
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, "base", "active", 0, 0)
but cannot be implemented for online qemu with round 1 of
Jeff's patches; and for offline images, it would require
three back-to-back qemu-img invocations unless qemu-img
is patched to allow more efficient multi-layer commits;
the end result would be 'base' as the active disk with
contents from all three other files, where 'snap1' and
'snap2' are invalid right away, and 'active' is invalid
once any further changes to 'base' are made.
+ These are equivalent:
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, "snap2", NULL, 0, 0)
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, NULL, NULL, 0, _SHALLOW)
they cannot be implemented for online qemu, but for offline,
it is a matter of 'qemu-img commit active', so that 'snap2'
is now the active disk with contents formerly in 'active'.
+ Similarly:
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, "snap2", NULL, 0, _DELETE)
for an offline domain will merge 'active' into 'snap2', then
delete 'active' to avoid leaving a potentially invalid file
around.
+ This version:
virDomainBlockCommit(dom, disk, NULL, "snap2", 0, _SHALLOW)
can be implemented online with 'block-commit' passing a base of
snap1 and a top of snap2; and can be implemented offline by
'qemu-img commit snap2' followed by 'qemu-img rebase -u
-b snap1 active'
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (virDomainBlockCommit): New API.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainBlockCommit): Implement it.
* src/libvirt_public.syms (LIBVIRT_0.10.2): Export it.
* src/driver.h (virDrvDomainBlockCommit): New driver callback.
* docs/apibuild.py (CParser.parseSignature): Add exception.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in: (Add macros for the param fields,
declare the APIs).
* src/driver.h: (New methods for the driver struct)
* src/libvirt.c: (Implement the public APIs)
* src/libvirt_public.syms: (Export the public symbols)
This is to list the secret objects. Supports to filter the secrets
by its storage location, and whether it's private or not.
include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in: Declare enum virConnectListAllSecretFlags
and virConnectListAllSecrets.
python/generator.py: Skip auto-generating
src/driver.h: (virDrvConnectListAllSecrets)
src/libvirt.c: Implement the public API
src/libvirt_public.syms: Export the symbol to public
This is to list the network filter objects. No flags are supported
include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in: Declare enum virConnectListAllNWFilterFlags
and virConnectListAllNWFilters.
python/generator.py: Skip auto-generating
src/driver.h: (virDrvConnectListAllNWFilters)
src/libvirt.c: Implement the public API
src/libvirt_public.syms: Export the symbol to public
This is to list the node device objects, supports to filter the results
by capability types.
include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in: Declare enum virConnectListAllNodeDeviceFlags
and virConnectListAllNodeDevices.
python/generator.py: Skip auto-generating
src/driver.h: (virDrvConnectListAllNodeDevices)
src/libvirt.c: Implement the public API
src/libvirt_public.syms: Export the symbol to public
This is to list the interface objects, supported filtering flags
are: active|inactive.
include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in: Declare enum virConnectListAllInterfaceFlags
and virConnectListAllInterfaces.
python/generator.py: Skip auto-generating
src/driver.h: (virDrvConnectListAllInterfaces)
src/libvirt.c: Implement the public API
src/libvirt_public.syms: Export the symbol to public
This is to list the network objects, supported filtering flags
are: active|inactive, persistent|transient, autostart|no-autostart.
include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in: Declare enum virConnectListAllNetworkFlags
and virConnectListAllNetworks.
python/generator.py: Skip auto-generating
src/driver.h: (virDrvConnectListAllNetworks)
src/libvirt.c: Implement the public API
src/libvirt_public.syms: Export the symbol to public
Simply returns the storage volume objects. No supported filter
flags.
include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in: Declare the API
python/generator.py: Skip the function for generating. virStoragePool.py
will be added in later patch.
src/driver.h: virDrvStoragePoolListVolumesFlags
src/libvirt.c: Implementation for the API.
src/libvirt_public.syms: Export the symbol to public
This introduces a new API to list the storage pool objects,
4 groups of flags are provided to filter the returned pools:
* Active or not
* Autostarting or not
* Persistent or not
* And the pool type.
include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in: New enum virConnectListAllStoragePoolFlags;
Declare the API.
python/generator.py: Skip the generating
src/driver.h: (virDrvConnectListAllStoragePools)
src/libvirt.c: Implementation for the API.
src/libvirt_public.syms: Export the symbol.
Introduce 2 APIs to set/get physical cpu pinning info of emulator threads.
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
This patch updates libvirt's API to allow applications to inspect the
full list of security labels of a domain.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Cerri <mhcerri@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
With 0.10.0-rc0 out the door, we are committed to the next version
number.
* src/libvirt_public.syms (LIBVIRT_0.9.14): Rename...
(LIBVIRT_0.10.0): ...to this.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Fix fallout.
* src/openvz/openvz_driver.c (openvzDriver): Likewise.
* src/remote/remote_driver.c (remote_driver): Likewise.
Define new virConnect{Register,Unregister}CloseCallback() public APIs
which allows registering/unregistering a callback to be invoked when
the connection to a hypervisor is closed. The callback is provided
with the reason for the close, which may be 'error', 'eof', 'client'
or 'keepalive'.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
to query a guests's hostname. Containers like LXC and OpenVZ allow to
set a hostname different from the hosts name and QEMU's guest agent
could provide similar functionality.
There was an inherent race between virDomainSnapshotNum() and
virDomainSnapshotListNames(), where an additional snapshot could
be created in the meantime, or where a snapshot could be deleted
before converting the name back to a virDomainSnapshotPtr. It
was also an awkward name: the function operates on domains, not
domain snapshots. virDomainSnapshotListChildrenNames() suffered
from the same inherent race, although its naming was nicer.
This patch makes things nicer by grabbing a snapshot list
atomically, in the format most useful to the user.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (virDomainListAllSnapshots)
(virDomainSnapshotListAllChildren): New declarations.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainSnapshotListNames)
(virDomainSnapshotListChildrenNames): Add cross-references.
(virDomainListAllSnapshots, virDomainSnapshotListAllChildren):
New functions.
* src/libvirt_public.syms (LIBVIRT_0.9.13): Export them.
* src/driver.h (virDrvDomainListAllSnapshots)
(virDrvDomainSnapshotListAllChildren): New callbacks.
* python/generator.py (skip_function): Prepare for later
hand-written versions.
This patch adds a new public api that lists domains. The new approach is
different from those used before. There are key points to this:
1) The list is acquired atomically and contains both active and inactive
domains (guests). This eliminates the need to call two different list
APIs, where the state might change in between the calls.
2) The returned list consists of virDomainPtrs instead of names or ID's
that have to be converted to virDomainPtrs anyways using separate calls
for each one of them. This is more convenient and saves hypervisor calls.
3) The returned list is auto-allocated. This saves a lot of hassle for
the users.
4) Built in support for filtering. The API call supports various
filtering flags that modify the output list according to user needs.
Available filter groups:
Domain status:
VIR_CONNECT_LIST_DOMAINS_ACTIVE, VIR_CONNECT_LIST_DOMAINS_INACTIVE
Domain persistence:
VIR_CONNECT_LIST_DOMAINS_PERSISTENT,
VIR_CONNECT_LIST_DOMAINS_TRANSIENT
Domain state:
VIR_CONNECT_LIST_DOMAINS_RUNNING, VIR_CONNECT_LIST_DOMAINS_PAUSED,
VIR_CONNECT_LIST_DOMAINS_SHUTOFF, VIR_CONNECT_LIST_DOMAINS_OTHER
Existence of managed save image:
VIR_CONNECT_LIST_DOMAINS_MANAGEDSAVE,
VIR_CONNECT_LIST_DOMAINS_NO_MANAGEDSAVE
Auto-start option:
VIR_CONNECT_LIST_DOMAINS_AUTOSTART,
VIR_CONNECT_LIST_DOMAINS_NO_AUTOSTART
Existence of snapshot:
VIR_CONNECT_LIST_DOMAINS_HAS_SNAPSHOT,
VIR_CONNECT_LIST_DOMAINS_NO_SNAPSHOT
5) The python binding returns a list of domain objects that is very neat
to work with.
The only problem with this approach is no support from code generators
so both RPC code and python bindings had to be written manually.
*include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in: - add API prototype
- clean up whitespace mistakes nearby
*python/generator.py: - inhibit generation of the bindings for the new
api
*src/driver.h: - add driver prototype
- clean up some whitespace mistakes nearby
*src/libvirt.c: - add public implementation
*src/libvirt_public.syms: - export the new symbol
Right now, starting from just a virDomainSnapshotPtr, and wanting to
know if it is the current snapshot for its respective domain, you have
to use virDomainSnapshotGetDomain(), then virDomainSnapshotCurrent(),
then compare the two names returned by virDomainSnapshotGetName().
It is a bit easier if we can directly query this information from the
snapshot itself.
Right now, it is possible to filter a snapshot listing based on
whether snapshots have metadata that would prevent domain deletion,
but the only way to learn if an individual snapshot has metadata is
to see if that snapshot appears in the list returned by a listing.
Additionally, I hope to expand the qemu driver in a future patch to
use qemu-img to reconstruct snapshot XML corresponding to internal
qcow2 snapshot names not otherwise tracked by libvirt (in part, so
that libvirt can guarantee that new snapshots are not created with
a name that would silently corrupt the existing portion of the qcow2
file); if I ever get that in, then it would no longer be an all-or-none
decision on whether snapshots have metadata, and becomes all the more
important to be able to directly determine that information from a
particular snapshot.
Other query functions (such as virDomainIsActive) do not have a flags
argument, but since virDomainHasCurrentSnapshot takes a flags argument,
I figured it was safer to provide a flags argument here as well.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (virDomainSnapshotIsCurrent)
(virDomainSnapshotHasMetadata): New declarations.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainSnapshotIsCurrent)
(virDomainSnapshotHasMetadata): New functions.
* src/libvirt_public.syms (LIBVIRT_0.9.13): Export them.
* src/driver.h (virDrvDomainSnapshotIsCurrent)
(virDrvDomainSnapshotHasMetadata): New driver callbacks.
virDomainSnapshotPtr has a refcount member, but no one was able
to use it. Furthermore, all of our other vir*Ptr objects have
a *Ref method to match their *Free method. Thankfully, this is
client-side only, so we can use this new function regardless of
how old the server side is! (I have future patches to virsh
that want to use it.)
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (virDomainSnapshotRef): Declare.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainSnapshotRef): Implement it.
* src/libvirt_public.syms (LIBVIRT_0.9.13): Export it.
Qemu is adding the ability to do a partial rebase. That is, given:
base <- intermediate <- current
virDomainBlockPull will produce:
current
but qemu now has the ability to leave base in the chain, to produce:
base <- current
Note that current qemu can only do a forward merge, and only with
the current image as the destination, which is fully described by
this API without flags. But in the future, it may be possible to
enhance this API for additional scenarios by using flags:
Merging the current image back into a previous image (that is,
undoing a live snapshot), could be done by passing base as the
destination and flags with a bit requesting a backward merge.
Merging any other part of the image chain, whether forwards (the
backing image contents are pulled into the newer file) or backwards
(the deltas recorded in the newer file are merged back into the
backing file), could also be done by passing a new flag that says
that base should be treated as an XML snippet rather than an
absolute path name, where the XML could then supply the additional
instructions of which part of the image chain is being merged into
any other part.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (virDomainBlockRebase): New
declaration.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainBlockRebase): Implement it.
* src/libvirt_public.syms (LIBVIRT_0.9.10): Export it.
* src/driver.h (virDrvDomainBlockRebase): New driver callback.
* src/rpc/gendispatch.pl (long_legacy): Add exemption.
* docs/apibuild.py (long_legacy_functions): Likewise.
This patch adds API to modify domain metadata for running and stopped
domains. The api supports changing description, title as well as the
newly added <metadata> element. The API has support for storing data in
the metadata element using xml namespaces.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
* src/libvirt_public.syms
- add function headers
- add enum to select metadata to operate on
- export functions
* src/libvirt.c
- add public api implementation
* src/driver.h
- add driver support
* src/remote/remote_driver.c
* src/remote/remote_protocol.x
- wire up the remote protocol
* include/libvirt/virterror.h
* src/util/virterror.c
- add a new error message note that metadata for domain are
missing
