libvirt/include
Peter Krempa 747f64eeaf lib: Add public api to enable atomic listing of guest
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
2012-06-18 21:24:13 +02:00
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libvirt lib: Add public api to enable atomic listing of guest 2012-06-18 21:24:13 +02:00
Makefile.am maint: add missing copyright notices 2011-07-28 15:01:17 -06:00