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When starting (some) external helpers, callers of
qemuSecurityCommandRun() pass &exitstatus variable, to learn the
exit code of helper process (with qemuTPMEmulatorStart() being
the only exception). Then, if the status wasn't zero they produce
a generic error message, like:
"Starting of helper process failed. exitstatus=%d"
or, in case of qemuPasstStart():
"Could not start 'passt': %s"
This is needless as virCommandRun() (that's called under the
hood), can do both for us, if NULL was passed instead of
@exitstatus. Not only it appends exit status, it also reads
stderr of failed command producing comprehensive error message:
Child process (${args}) unexpected exit status ${exitstatus}: ${stderr}
Therefore, pass NULL everywhere. But in contrast with one of
previous commits which removed @cmdret argument, there could be a
sensible caller which might want to process exit code. So keep
the argument for now and just pass NULL.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.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.
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