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Currently, we have a bug when updating a graphics device. A graphics device can
have a listen address set. This address is either defined by user (in which case
it's type is VIR_DOMAIN_GRAPHICS_LISTEN_TYPE_ADDRESS) or it can be inherited
from a network (in which case it's type is
VIR_DOMAIN_GRAPHICS_LISTEN_TYPE_NETWORK). However, in both cases we have a
listen address to process (e.g. during migration, as I've tried to fix in
7f15ebc7).
Later, when a user tries to update the graphics device (e.g. set a password),
we check if listen addresses match the original as qemu doesn't know how to
change listen address yet. Hence, users are required to not change the listen
address. The implementation then just dumps listen addresses and compare them.
Previously, while dumping the listen addresses, NULL was returned for NETWORK.
After my patch, this is no longer true, and we get a listen address for olddev
even if it is a type of NETWORK. So we have a real string on one side, the NULL
from user's XML on the other side and hence we think user wants to change the
listen address and we refuse it.
Therefore, we must take the type of listen address into account as well.
libvirt library code README
===========================
The directory provides the bulk of the libvirt codebase. Everything
except for the libvirtd daemon and client tools. The build uses a
large number of libtool convenience libraries - one for each child
directory, and then links them together for the final libvirt.so,
although some bits get linked directly to libvirtd daemon instead.
The files directly in this directory are supporting the public API
entry points & data structures.
There are two core shared modules to be aware of:
* util/ - a collection of shared APIs that can be used by any
code. This directory is always in the include path
for all things built
* conf/ - APIs for parsing / manipulating all the official XML
files used by the public API. This directory is only
in the include path for driver implementation modules
* vmx/ - VMware VMX config handling (used by esx/ and vmware/)
Then there are the hypervisor implementations:
* esx/ - VMware ESX and GSX support using vSphere API over SOAP
* hyperv/ - Microsoft Hyper-V support using WinRM
* lxc/ - Linux Native Containers
* openvz/ - OpenVZ containers using cli tools
* phyp/ - IBM Power Hypervisor using CLI tools over SSH
* qemu/ - QEMU / KVM using qemu CLI/monitor
* remote/ - Generic libvirt native RPC client
* test/ - A "mock" driver for testing
* uml/ - User Mode Linux
* vbox/ - Virtual Box using native API
* vmware/ - VMware Workstation and Player using the vmrun tool
* xen/ - Xen using hypercalls, XenD SEXPR & XenStore
* xenapi/ - Xen using libxenserver
Finally some secondary drivers that are shared for several HVs.
Currently these are used by LXC, OpenVZ, QEMU, UML and Xen drivers.
The ESX, Hyper-V, Power Hypervisor, Remote, Test & VirtualBox drivers all
implement the secondary drivers directly
* cpu/ - CPU feature management
* interface/ - Host network interface management
* network/ - Virtual NAT networking
* nwfilter/ - Network traffic filtering rules
* node_device/ - Host device enumeration
* secret/ - Secret management
* security/ - Mandatory access control drivers
* storage/ - Storage management drivers
Since both the hypervisor and secondary drivers can be built as
dlopen()able modules, it is *FORBIDDEN* to have build dependencies
between these directories. Drivers are only allowed to depend on
the public API, and the internal APIs in the util/ and conf/
directories