Re: [Libvir] PATCH: RFC: env var to set default connection URI

Currently, if the app provides NULL as the connect URI, we always connect to a Xen hypervisor. virsh provides a VIR_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI env var which can be used to override this. virt-install/virt-manager never use NULL, and now try to 'guess' a default URI based on whether /dev/kvm or /proc/xen exist. Users have requested that VIR_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI apply to other apps besides virsh. So this patch adds support for LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI env variable which will be used if the connect URI is NULL. If that variable is not set it will still default to Xen. diff -r 673c98e11c78 src/libvirt.c --- a/src/libvirt.c Wed Jan 16 09:27:56 2008 -0500 +++ b/src/libvirt.c Wed Jan 16 09:28:00 2008 -0500 @@ -516,8 +516,13 @@ do_open (const char *name, xmlURIPtr uri; /* Convert NULL or "" to xen:/// for back compat */ - if (!name || name[0] == '\0') - name = "xen:///"; + if (!name || name[0] == '\0') { + char *defname = getenv("LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI"); + if (defname && *defname) + name = defname; + else + name = "xen:///"; + } /* Convert xen -> xen:/// for back compat */ if (!strcasecmp(name, "xen"))