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In the past, we have created some virsh options with less-than-stellar names. For back-compat reasons, those names must continue to parse, but we don't want to document them in help output. This introduces a new option type, an alias, which points to a canonical option name later in the option list. I'm actually quite impressed that our code has already been factored to do all option parsing through common entry points, such that I got this added in relatively few lines of code! * tools/virsh.c (VSH_OT_ALIAS): New option type. (opts_echo): Hook up an alias, for easy testing. (vshCmddefOptParse, vshCmddefHelp, vshCmddefGetOption): Allow for aliases. * tools/virsh.pod (NOTES): Document promise of back-compat. * tests/virshtest.c (mymain): Test new feature.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>