On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 14:54:50 -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
On 11/18/19 12:02 PM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> Historically we've only supported the <backingStore> as an output-only
> element for domain disks. The documentation states that it may become
> supported on input. To allow management apps detectin once that happens
> add a domain capability which will be asserted if the hypervisor driver
> will be able to obey the <backingStore> as configured on input.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com>
> ---
> docs/formatdomaincaps.html.in | 7 +++++++
> docs/schemas/domaincaps.rng | 9 +++++++++
> src/conf/domain_capabilities.c | 1 +
> src/conf/domain_capabilities.h | 1 +
> tests/domaincapsdata/libxl-xenfv.xml | 1 +
> tests/domaincapsdata/libxl-xenpv.xml | 1 +
Now that I look closer, this patch illustrates one of the issues with
the pattern of virDomainCapsFeaturesInitUnsupported : that function is
used in the bhyve driver, but this patch doesn't update the bhyve test
suite domcaps output. devs can't add a new domcaps feature without
having to regenerate test output for every driver, which is a pain and
easy to overlook.
It illustrates my counter-point nicely too. I'd not bother to turn off
the capability in bhyve despite it being unsupported. Now at least the
tests caught it.