As we enable more modes of snapshot creation, it becomes more important
to be able to quickly filter based on snapshot properties. This patch
introduces new filter flags; subsequent patches will introduce virsh
back-compat filtering, as well as actual libvirt filtering.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (virDomainSnapshotListFlags): Add
five new flags in two new groups.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainSnapshotNum, virDomainSnapshotListNames)
(virDomainListAllSnapshots, virDomainSnapshotNumChildren)
(virDomainSnapshotListChildrenNames)
(virDomainSnapshotListAllChildren): Document them.
* src/conf/snapshot_conf.h (VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_FILTERS_STATUS)
(VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_FILTERS_LOCATION): Add new convenience filter
collection macros.
* tools/virsh-snapshot.c (cmdSnapshotList): Add 5 new flags.
* tools/virsh.pod (snapshot-list): Document them.
The default behavior while creating external checkpoints is to pause the
guest while the memory state is captured. We want the users to sacrifice
space saving for creating the memory save image while the guest is live
to minimize downtime.
This patch adds a flag that causes the guest not to be paused before
taking the snapshot.
*include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in:
- add new paused reason: VIR_DOMAIN_PAUSED_SNAPSHOT
- add new flag for taking snapshot: VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_LIVE
*tools/virsh-domain-monitor.c:
- add string representation for VIR_DOMAIN_PAUSED_SNAPSHOT
*tools/virsh-snapshot.c:
- add support for VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_LIVE
*tools/virsh.pod:
- add docs for --live option added to use
VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_LIVE flag
The libvirt coding standard is to use 'function(...args...)'
instead of 'function (...args...)'. A non-trivial number of
places did not follow this rule and are fixed in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
I noticed this while answering a list question about Java bindings
of volume creation. All other functions that take xml logged xmlDesc.
* src/libvirt.c (virStorageVolCreateXML)
(virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom): Use consistent spelling of xmlDesc,
and log the argument.
Handle the new type of block copy event and info. Of course,
this patch does nothing until a later patch actually allows the
creation/abort of a block copy job.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_JOB_READY): New
block job status.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainBlockRebase): Document the event.
* src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c (eventHandlers): New event.
(qemuMonitorJSONHandleBlockJobReady): New function.
(qemuMonitorJSONGetBlockJobInfoOne): Translate new job type.
(qemuMonitorJSONHandleBlockJobImpl): Handle new event and job type.
* src/qemu/qemu_process.c (qemuProcessHandleBlockJob): Recognize
the event to minimize snooping.
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDomainBlockJobImpl): Snoop a successful
info query to save effort on a pivot request.
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>
In v2 migration protocol, XML is obtained by calling domainGetXMLDesc.
This includes the default USB controller in XML, which breaks migration
to older libvirt (before 0.9.2).
Commit 409b5f5495
qemu: Emit compatible XML when migrating a domain
only fixed this for v3 migration.
This patch uses the new VIR_DOMAIN_XML_MIGRATABLE flag (detected by
VIR_DRV_FEATURE_XML_MIGRATABLE) to obtain XML without the default controller,
enabling backward v2 migration.
Now that we can crawl the chain of backing files, we can do
argument validation and implement the 'shallow' flag. In
testing this, I discovered that it can be handy to pass the
shallow flag and an explicit base, as a means of validating
that the base is indeed the file we expected.
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDomainBlockCommit): Crawl through
chain to implement shallow flag.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainBlockCommit): Relax API.
Currently there is a restriction that multi-threaded applications
must manually call virInitialize, before threads start using
libvirt, because it is not thread-safe. By switching it to use
a virOnceControl initializer we gain thread safety, and thus
applications no longer need to manually call it. They can rely
on virConnectOpen invoking it for them.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
curl_global_init is not thread-safe. curl_easy_init might call
curl_global_init when it was no called before. But curl_easy_init
can be called from different threads by the ESX driver. Therefore,
call curl_global_init from virInitialize to stop curl_easy_init from
calling it.
Reported by Benjamin Wang.
Jim Fehlig reported a compilation error with older gcc 4.3.4:
libvirt.c: In function 'virDomainGetEmulatorPinInfo':
libvirt.c:9111: error: logical '&&' with non-zero constant will always evaluate as true [-Wlogical-op]
It looks like someone programmed via too much copy-and-paste.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainGetEmulatorPinInfo): Multiplying by 1 is
a no-op, and thus will never overflow.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html recommends that
the 'If not, see <url>.' phrase be a separate sentence.
* tests/securityselinuxhelper.c: Remove doubled line.
* tests/securityselinuxtest.c: Likewise.
* globally: s/; If/. If/
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
All public API functions must call virResetLastError to clear
out any previous error. The virConnectOpen* functions forgot
to do this.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
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.
If a domain is pmsuspended then virsh suspend will succeed. Beside
obvious flaw, virsh resume will report success and change domain
state to running which is another mistake. Therefore we must forbid
any attempts for suspend and resume when pmsuspended.
The bandwidth units for blockpull and blockcopy are in Megabytes per
Second, not Megabits per Second.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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>
This converts the following public API datatypes to use the
virObject infrastructure:
virConnectPtr
virDomainPtr
virDomainSnapshotPtr
virInterfacePtr
virNetworkPtr
virNodeDevicePtr
virNWFilterPtr
virSecretPtr
virStreamPtr
virStorageVolPtr
virStoragePoolPtr
The code is significantly simplified, since the mutex in the
virConnectPtr object now only needs to be held when accessing
the per-connection virError object instance. All other operations
are completely lock free.
* src/datatypes.c, src/datatypes.h, src/libvirt.c: Convert
public datatypes to use virObject
* src/conf/domain_event.c, src/phyp/phyp_driver.c,
src/qemu/qemu_command.c, src/qemu/qemu_migration.c,
src/qemu/qemu_process.c, src/storage/storage_driver.c,
src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c, src/xen/xend_internal.c,
tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c, tests/qemuxmlnstest.c,
tests/sexpr2xmltest.c, tests/xmconfigtest.c: Convert
to use virObjectUnref/virObjectRef
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
All callers used the same initialization seed (well, the new
viratomictest forgot to look at getpid()); so we might as well
make this value automatic. And while it may feel like we are
giving up functionality, I documented how to get it back in the
unlikely case that you actually need to debug with a fixed
pseudo-random sequence. I left that crippled by default, so
that a stray environment variable doesn't cause a lack of
randomness to become a security issue.
* src/util/virrandom.c (virRandomInitialize): Rename...
(virRandomOnceInit): ...and make static, with one-shot call.
Document how to do fixed-seed debugging.
* src/util/virrandom.h (virRandomInitialize): Drop prototype.
* src/libvirt_private.syms (virrandom.h): Don't export it.
* src/libvirt.c (virInitialize): Adjust caller.
* src/lxc/lxc_controller.c (main): Likewise.
* src/security/virt-aa-helper.c (main): Likewise.
* src/util/iohelper.c (main): Likewise.
* tests/seclabeltest.c (main): Likewise.
* tests/testutils.c (virtTestMain): Likewise.
* tests/viratomictest.c (mymain): Likewise.
Remove the use of a manually run virLogStartup and
virNodeSuspendInitialize methods. Instead make sure they
are automatically run using VIR_ONCE_GLOBAL_INIT
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Parallels Cloud Server is a cloud-ready virtualization
solution that allows users to simultaneously run multiple virtual
machines and containers on the same physical server.
More information can be found here: http://www.parallels.com/products/pcs/
Also beta version of Parallels Cloud Server can be downloaded there.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Guryanov <dguryanov@parallels.com>
Update the remote driver to use the virNetClient close callback
to trigger the virConnectPtr close callbacks
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
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>
This is a follow up patch of commit f9ce7dad6, it modifies all
the files which declare the copyright like "See COPYING.LIB for
the License of this software" to use the detailed/consistent one.
And deserts the outdated comments like:
* libvirt-qemu.h:
* Summary: qemu specific interfaces
* Description: Provides the interfaces of the libvirt library to handle
* qemu specific methods
*
* Copy: Copyright (C) 2010, 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
Uses the more compact style like:
* libvirt-qemu.h: Interfaces specific for QEMU/KVM driver
*
* Copyright (C) 2010, 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
Any time we have a string with no % passed through gettext, a
translator can inject a % to cause a stack overread. When there
is nothing to format, it's easier to ask for a string that cannot
be used as a formatter, by using a trivial "%s" format instead.
In the past, we have used --disable-nls to catch some of the
offenders, but that doesn't get run very often, and many more
uses have crept in. Syntax check to the rescue!
The syntax check can catch uses such as
virReportError(code,
_("split "
"string"));
by using a sed script to fold context lines into one pattern
space before checking for a string without %.
This patch is just mechanical insertion of %s; there are probably
several messages touched by this patch where we would be better
off giving the user more information than a fixed string.
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_diagnostic_without_format): New rule.
* src/datatypes.c (virUnrefConnect, virGetDomain)
(virUnrefDomain, virGetNetwork, virUnrefNetwork, virGetInterface)
(virUnrefInterface, virGetStoragePool, virUnrefStoragePool)
(virGetStorageVol, virUnrefStorageVol, virGetNodeDevice)
(virGetSecret, virUnrefSecret, virGetNWFilter, virUnrefNWFilter)
(virGetDomainSnapshot, virUnrefDomainSnapshot): Add %s wrapper.
* src/lxc/lxc_driver.c (lxcDomainSetBlkioParameters)
(lxcDomainGetBlkioParameters): Likewise.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virSecurityDeviceLabelDefParseXML)
(virDomainDiskDefParseXML, virDomainGraphicsDefParseXML):
Likewise.
* src/conf/network_conf.c (virNetworkDNSHostsDefParseXML)
(virNetworkDefParseXML): Likewise.
* src/conf/nwfilter_conf.c (virNWFilterIsValidChainName):
Likewise.
* src/conf/nwfilter_params.c (virNWFilterVarValueCreateSimple)
(virNWFilterVarAccessParse): Likewise.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainSave, virDomainSaveFlags)
(virDomainRestore, virDomainRestoreFlags)
(virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc, virDomainSaveImageDefineXML)
(virDomainCoreDump, virDomainGetXMLDesc)
(virDomainMigrateVersion1, virDomainMigrateVersion2)
(virDomainMigrateVersion3, virDomainMigrate, virDomainMigrate2)
(virStreamSendAll, virStreamRecvAll)
(virDomainSnapshotGetXMLDesc): Likewise.
* src/nwfilter/nwfilter_dhcpsnoop.c (virNWFilterSnoopReqLeaseDel)
(virNWFilterDHCPSnoopReq): Likewise.
* src/openvz/openvz_driver.c (openvzUpdateDevice): Likewise.
* src/openvz/openvz_util.c (openvzKBPerPages): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c (qemuSetupCgroup): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_command.c (qemuBuildHubDevStr, qemuBuildChrChardevStr)
(qemuBuildCommandLine): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDomainGetPercpuStats): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c (qemuDomainAttachNetDevice): Likewise.
* src/rpc/virnetsaslcontext.c (virNetSASLSessionGetIdentity):
Likewise.
* src/rpc/virnetsocket.c (virNetSocketNewConnectUNIX)
(virNetSocketSendFD, virNetSocketRecvFD): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c
(virStorageBackendDiskBuildPool): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c
(virStorageBackendFileSystemProbe)
(virStorageBackendFileSystemBuild): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_rbd.c
(virStorageBackendRBDOpenRADOSConn): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_driver.c (storageVolumeResize): Likewise.
* src/test/test_driver.c (testInterfaceChangeBegin)
(testInterfaceChangeCommit, testInterfaceChangeRollback):
Likewise.
* src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c (vboxListAllDomains): Likewise.
* src/xenxs/xen_sxpr.c (xenFormatSxprDisk, xenFormatSxpr):
Likewise.
* src/xenxs/xen_xm.c (xenXMConfigGetUUID, xenFormatXMDisk)
(xenFormatXM): Likewise.
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.
When --direct is used when migrating a domain running on a hypervisor
that does not support direct migration (such as QEMU), the caller would
get the following error message:
this function is not supported by the connection driver:
virDomainMigrateToURI2
which is a complete nonsense since qemu driver implements
virDomainMigrateToURI2. This patch would emit a more sensible error in
this case:
Requested operation is not valid: direct migration is not supported
by the connection driver
Storage is one of the last domains in libvirt where we don't fully
utilize inactive and live XML. Okay, it might be because we don't
have support for that. So implement such support. However, we need
to fallback when talking to old daemon which doesn't support this
new flag called VIR_STORAGE_XML_INACTIVE.
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.
It turns out that one-bit filtering makes it hard to select the inverse
set, so it is easier to provide filtering groups. For back-compat,
omitting all bits within a group means the group is not used for
filtering, and by definition of a group (each snapshot matches exactly
one bit within the group, and the set of bits in the group covers all
snapshots), selecting all bits also makes the group useless.
Unfortunately, virDomainSnapshotListChildren defined the bit
VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_LIST_DESCENDANTS as an expansion rather than a
filter, so we cannot make it part of a filter group, so that bit
(and its counterpart VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_LIST_ROOTS for
virDomainSnapshotList) remains a single control bit.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (virDomainSnapshotListFlags): Add a
couple more flags.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainSnapshotNum)
(virDomainSnapshotNumChildren): Document them.
(virDomainSnapshotListNames, virDomainSnapshotListChildrenNames):
Likewise, and add thread-safety caveats.
* src/conf/virdomainlist.h (VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_FILTERS_*): New
convenience macros.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainSnapshotObjListCopyNames)
(virDomainSnapshotObjListCount): Support the new flags.
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.
Since we are allocating RPC buffer dynamically, we can increase limits
for max. size of RPC message and RPC string. This is needed to cover
some corner cases where libvirt is run on such huge machines that their
capabilities XML is 4 times bigger than our current limit. This leaves
users with inability to even connect.
