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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
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>