The attached patch prepares the driver method API to support inactive domains. The following methods are hooked up: * virConnectListDefinedDomains * virConnectNumOfDefinedDomains * virDomainDefineXML * virDomainUndefine * virDomainCreate It sets all existing drivers to have NULL in these fields. The existing code in virDomainDefineXML was ripped out since it was found to be more trouble than it was worth - the backend driver needed to repeat most of the logic anyway - so better just to delegate the whole lot. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 12:15:40AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > The attached patch prepares the driver method API to support inactive > domains. The following methods are hooked up: > > * virConnectListDefinedDomains > * virConnectNumOfDefinedDomains > * virDomainDefineXML > * virDomainUndefine > * virDomainCreate > > It sets all existing drivers to have NULL in these fields. > > The existing code in virDomainDefineXML was ripped out since it was found > to be more trouble than it was worth - the backend driver needed to repeat > most of the logic anyway - so better just to delegate the whole lot. Okay, I didn't expected those inactive domain entry point to be driver specific, but in perspective you are right. At some point the support will go directly into Xen for example, so that was a mistake on my part, and well for example with UML the inactive domain definitions could be saved in the .uml directory, so it will have to be driver specific. The patch is a direct implementation of this, looks fine to me, the addition of virConnectNumOfDefinedDomains() make sense since we have the equivalent for active ones. Looks fine to me, go for it !