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Introduce a parser/formatter for the xl config format. Since the
deprecation of xm/xend, the VM config file format has diverged as
new features are added to libxl. This patch adds support for parsing
and formating the xl config format. It supports the existing xm config
format, plus adds support for spice graphics and xl disk config syntax.
Disk config is specified a bit differently in xl as compared to xm. In
xl, disk config consists of comma-separated positional parameters and
keyword/value pairs separated by commas. Positional parameters are
specified as follows
target, format, vdev, access
Supported keys for key=value options are
devtype, backendtype
The positional paramters can also be specified in key/value form. For
example the following xl disk config are equivalent
/dev/vg/guest-volume,,hda
/dev/vg/guest-volume,raw,hda,rw
format=raw, vdev=hda, access=rw, target=/dev/vg/guest-volume
See $xen_sources/docs/misc/xl-disk-configuration.txt for more details.
xl disk config is parsed with the help of xlu_disk_parse() from
libxlutil, libxl's utility library. Although the library exists
in all Xen versions supported by the libxl virt driver, only
recently has the corresponding header file been included. A check
for the header is done in configure.ac. If not found, xlu_disk_parse()
is declared externally.
Signed-off-by: Kiarie Kahurani <davidkiarie4@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
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>