Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v2 00/10] Make loading domains with invalid XML possible

We always had to deal with new parsing errors in a weird way. All of them needed to go into functions starting the domains. That messes up the code, it's confusing to newcomers and so on. I once had an idea that we can handle this stuff. We know what failed, we have the XML that failed parsing and if the problem is not in the domain name nor UUID, we can create a domain object out of that as well. This way we are able to do something we weren't with this series applied. Example follows. Assume "dummy" is a domain with invalid XML (I just modified the file). Now, just for the purpose of this silly example, let's say we allowed domains with archtecture x86_*, but now we've realized that x86_64 is the only one we want to allow, but there already is a domain defined that has <type arch='x86_256' .../>. With the current master, the domain would be lost, so we would need to modify the funstion starting the domain (e.g. qemuProcessStart for qemu domain). However, with this series, it behaves like this: # virsh list --all --reason Id Name State Reason --------------------------------------------------------------- - dummy shut off invalid XML # virsh domstate --reason dummy shut off (invalid XML) # virsh start dummy error: Failed to start domain dummy error: XML error: domain 'dummy' was not loaded due to an XML error (unsupported configuration: Unknown architecture x86_256), please redefine it # VISUAL='sed -i s/x86_256/x86_64/' virsh edit dummy Domain dummy XML configuration edited. # virsh domstate --reason dummy shut off (unknown) # virsh start dummy Domain dummy started This is a logical next step for us to clean and separate parsing and starting, getting rid of some old code without sacrifying compatibility and maybe generating parser code in the future. v2: - rebased on top of current master (with virdomainobjlist.c) - only disallow starting domains with invalid definitions (change done in v1), but allow re-defining them - add support for "virsh list --reason" to better excercise the feature added in this patchset v1: - rebase - don't allow starting domains with invalid state - https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-November/msg01127.html RFC: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-September/msg00698.html Martin Kletzander (10): conf, virsh: Add new domain shutoff reason virsh: Refactor the table output of the list command virsh: Add support for list -reason qemu: Few whitespace cleanups conf: Extract name-parsing into its own function conf: Extract UUID parsing into its own function conf: Optionally keep domains with invalid XML, but don't allow starting them qemu: Don't lookup invalid domains unless specified otherwise qemu: Prepare basic APIs to handle invalid defs qemu: Load domains with invalid XML on start include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h | 2 + src/bhyve/bhyve_driver.c | 2 + src/conf/domain_conf.c | 121 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- src/conf/domain_conf.h | 7 +++ src/conf/virdomainobjlist.c | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++-- src/conf/virdomainobjlist.h | 1 + src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 + src/libxl/libxl_driver.c | 3 + src/lxc/lxc_driver.c | 3 + src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++---- src/uml/uml_driver.c | 2 + tests/virshtest.c | 30 +++++++--- tools/virsh-domain-monitor.c | 60 ++++++++++++------- tools/virsh.pod | 5 +- 14 files changed, 303 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)