libvirt/src/vbox
Matthias Bolte f4a8542dd5 vbox: Stop hardcoding a single path for VBoxXPCOMC.so
This partly reverts df90ca7661.

Don't disable the VirtualBox driver when configure can't find
VBoxXPCOMC.so, rely on detection at runtime again instead.

Keep --with-vbox=/path/to/virtualbox intact, added to for:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609185

Detection order for VBoxXPCOMC.so:

1. VBOX_APP_HOME environment variable
2. configure provided location
3. hardcoded list of known locations
4. dynamic linker search path

Also cleanup the glue code and improve error reporting.
2010-10-29 15:50:38 +02:00
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README integration of the VirtualBox support 2009-04-17 16:09:07 +00:00
vbox_CAPI_v2_2.h build: silence cppi warning, clarify vbox headers 2010-05-27 17:00:39 -06:00
vbox_CAPI_v3_0.h build: silence cppi warning, clarify vbox headers 2010-05-27 17:00:39 -06:00
vbox_CAPI_v3_1.h build: silence cppi warning, clarify vbox headers 2010-05-27 17:00:39 -06:00
vbox_CAPI_v3_2.h build: silence cppi warning, clarify vbox headers 2010-05-27 17:00:39 -06:00
vbox_driver.c Support for VirtualBox version 3.2 2010-05-27 01:28:21 +02:00
vbox_driver.h build: consistently indent preprocessor directives 2010-03-09 19:22:28 +01:00
vbox_tmpl.c vbox: Fix compile errors due to the virSocketAddr series 2010-10-22 14:49:37 +02:00
vbox_V2_2.c integration of the VirtualBox support 2009-04-17 16:09:07 +00:00
vbox_V3_0.c Add support for VBox 3 and event callbacks on vbox 2009-07-24 18:12:16 +02:00
vbox_V3_1.c vbox: Add support for version 3.1 2009-12-04 14:49:45 +01:00
vbox_V3_2.c Support for VirtualBox version 3.2 2010-05-27 01:28:21 +02:00
vbox_XPCOMCGlue.c vbox: Stop hardcoding a single path for VBoxXPCOMC.so 2010-10-29 15:50:38 +02:00
vbox_XPCOMCGlue.h vbox: Stop hardcoding a single path for VBoxXPCOMC.so 2010-10-29 15:50:38 +02:00

    Explanation about the how multi-version support
    for VirtualBox libvirt driver is implemented.

Since VirtualBox adds multiple new features for each release, it is but
natural that the C API which VirtualBox exposes is volatile across
versions and thus needs a good mechanism to handle multiple versions
during runtime. The solution was something like this:

Firstly the file structure is as below:

vbox_CAPI_v2_2.h
vbox_XPCOMCGlue.h
vbox_XPCOMCGlue.c
These files are C API/glue code files directly taken from the
VirtualBox OSE source and is needed for C API to work as expected.

vbox_driver.h
vbox_driver.c
These files have the main logic for registering the virtualbox driver
with libvirt.

vbox_V2_2.c
The file which has version dependent changes and includes the template
file for given below for all of its functionality.

vbox_tmpl.c
The file where all the real driver implementation code exists.

Now there would be a vbox_V*.c file (for eg: vbox_V2_2.c for V2.2) for
each major virtualbox version which would do some preprocessor magic
and include the template file (vbox_tmpl.c) in it for the functionality
it offers.