[libvirt] [PATCH 00/12] Temporarily use other boot configuration

This patch series implements a new API that allows us to temporarily use another boot configuration than defined in the persistent domain definition. The s390 architecture knows only one boot device and therefore the boot order settings doesn't work the way it would work on x86, for example. If the first boot device fails to boot there is no trying to boot from the next boot device. In addition, the architecture/BIOS has no support for interactively changing the boot device during the boot/IPL process. Currently the API is implemented for the remote/QEMU/test driver and for virsh. It can be used as follows $ virsh start {{DOMAIN}} --with-kernel {{KERNEL_FILE}} \ --with-initrd {{INITRD_FILE}} --with-cmdline {{CMDLINE}} \ --with-bootdevice {{DEVICE_IDENTIFIER}} E.g. $ virsh start dom_01 --with-bootdevice='vdb' Marc Hartmayer (12): virsh: Force boot emulation is only required for virDomainCreateWithFlags Introduce new domain create API virDomainCreateWithParams remote: Add support for virDomainCreateWithParams utils: Add virStringUpdate conf: Add functions to change the boot configuration of a domain qemu: Add the functionality to override the boot configuration qemu: Add support for virDomainCreateWithParams test: Implement virConnectSupportsFeature test: Add support for virDomainCreateWithParams tests: Add tests for virDomainCreateWithParams virsh: Add with-{bootdevice,kernel,initrd,cmdline} options for start docs: Add news entry for new API virDomainCreateWithParams docs/news.xml | 11 ++ include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h | 37 +++++ src/conf/domain_conf.c | 226 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/conf/domain_conf.h | 11 ++ src/driver-hypervisor.h | 6 + src/libvirt-domain.c | 64 ++++++++ src/libvirt_private.syms | 2 + src/libvirt_public.syms | 4 + src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 83 ++++++++-- src/qemu/qemu_migration.c | 3 +- src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 16 +- src/qemu/qemu_process.h | 2 + src/remote/remote_driver.c | 1 + src/remote/remote_protocol.x | 22 ++- src/remote_protocol-structs | 12 ++ src/rpc/gendispatch.pl | 18 ++- src/test/test_driver.c | 108 +++++++++++-- src/util/virstring.c | 27 ++++ src/util/virstring.h | 2 + tests/objecteventtest.c | 321 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ tools/virsh-domain.c | 136 ++++++++++++++--- tools/virsh.pod | 14 ++ 22 files changed, 1064 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-) -- 2.13.4