By probing for qemu machine types, we increased the time of a
GetCapabilities call from 100us to a whopping 60ms.
This patch takes the approach of only probing for machine types
when the mtime of the emulator binary changed since the last time
the capabilities were generated.
* src/capabilities.h: cache the emulator binary mtime
* src/qemu_conf.c: add qemudGetOldMachines() to copy the machine
types from the old caps struct if the mtime for the binary hasn't
changed
* src/qemu_conf.h, src/qemu_driver.c: pass the old caps pointer to
qemudCapsInit()
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>