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Extracting capabilities from QEMU takes a notable amount of time when all QEMU binaries are installed. Each system emulator needs about 200-300ms multiplied by 26 binaries == ~5-8 seconds. This change causes the QEMU driver to save an XML file containing the content of the virQEMUCaps object instance in the cache dir eg /var/cache/libvirt/qemu/capabilities/$SHA256(binarypath).xml or $HOME/.cache/libvirt/qemu/cache/capabilities/$SHA256(binarypath).xml We attempt to load this and only if it fails, do we fallback to probing the QEMU binary. The ctime of the QEMU binary and libvirtd are stored in the cached file and its data discarded if either of them change. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.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>