There are three virStreamDriver's currently supported:
* virFDStream
* remote driver
* ESX driver
For now, backend virStreamRecvFlags support for only remote driver and
ESX driver is sufficient. Future patches will update virFDStream.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
This allows to implement libvirt functions that use streams, such as
virDoaminScreenshot, without the need to store the downloaded data in
a temporary file first. The stream driver directly interacts with
libcurl to send and receive data.
The driver uses the libcurl multi interface that allows to do a transfer
in multiple curl_multi_perform() calls. The easy interface would do the
whole transfer in a single curl_easy_perform() call. This doesn't work
with the libvirt stream API that is driven by multiple calls to the
virStreamSend() and virStreamRecv() functions.
The curl_multi_wait() function is used to do blocking operations. But it
was added in libcurl 7.28.0. For older versions it is emulated using the
socket callback of the multi interface.
The current driver only supports blocking operations. There is already
some code in place for non-blocking mode but it is not complete.
