Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] news: Update release notes

On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 14:34:58 +0000, Daniel Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 03:28:57PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 15:12:39 +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote: > > > On 03/01/2018 02:15 PM, Peter Krempa wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 14:08:29 +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote: > > > >> Signed-off-by: --help <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; [...] > > > > Isn't this an internal change not really used for consumption of > > > > clients? > > > > > > Not really. Try it yourself: > > > > > > virsh -c network:///system net-list --all > > > > Well, that obviously has to work. But it's not exactly useful for > > general usage: > > > > $ virsh -c network:///system list --all > > error: Failed to list active domains > > error: this function is not supported by the connection driver: virConnectNumOfDomains > > > > [...] > > Note that in general we don't promise *any* API is supported by *any* > URI. The set of APIs provided by any given driver are documented in > our page > > https://libvirt.org/hvsupport.html > > So the fact that the network:/// URI doesn't support the listing > of domains is not a bug. It is just an expected gap in the support > matrix for that driver. > > IOW, this is largely a documentation task - I still need to provide > docs for the secondary drivers to describe this better. I'm not saying it's a bug. I'm just pointing out that it's not really useful by itself to open connection just to anything else than the VM driver itself. Libvirt is a library used to manage VMs and that's the main reason anybody will install it. I doubt that anybody would install libvirt to manage storage or firewall, since there are way better options to do so than our network/storage driver.