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This patch introduces the support for giving all devices a short, unique name, henceforth known as a 'device alias'. These aliases are not set by the end user, instead being assigned by the hypervisor if it decides it want to support this concept. The QEMU driver sets them whenever using the -device arg syntax and uses them for improved hotplug/hotunplug. it is the intent that other APIs (block / interface stats & device hotplug) be able to accept device alias names in the future. The XML syntax is <alias name="video0"/> This may appear in any type of device that supports device info. * src/conf/domain_conf.c, src/conf/domain_conf.h: Add a 'alias' field to virDomainDeviceInfo struct & parse/format it in XML * src/libvirt_private.syms: Export virDomainDefClearDeviceAliases * src/qemu/qemu_conf.c: Replace use of "nic_name" field with the standard device alias * src/qemu/qemu_driver.c: Clear device aliases at shutdown
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>