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The current virPCIDeviceNew() signature, receiving 4 uints in sequence (domain, bus, slot, function), is not neat. We already have a way to represent a PCI address in virPCIDeviceAddress that is used in the code. Aside from the test files, most of virPCIDeviceNew() callers have access to a virPCIDeviceAddress reference, but then we need to retrieve the 4 required uints (addr.domain, addr.bus, addr.slot, addr.function) to satisfy virPCIDeviceNew(). The result is that we have extra verbosity/boilerplate to retrieve an information that is already available in virPCIDeviceAddress. A better way is presented by virNVMEDeviceNew(), where the caller just supplies a virPCIDeviceAddress pointer and the function handles the details internally. This patch changes virPCIDeviceNew() to receive a virPCIDeviceAddress pointer instead of 4 uints. Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:
License
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser
General Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code
that are not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU
General Public License, version 2.0 (or later). See the files
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Installation
Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/compiling.html
Contributing
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
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- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
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