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Currently, we have three different types of mdevctl errors:
1. the command cannot be constructed ecause of unsatisfied
preconditions
2. the command cannot be executed due to some error
3. the command is executed, but returns an error status
These different failures are handled differently. Some cases set an
error and return and error status, and some return a error message but
do not set an error.
This means that the caller has to check both whether the return value is
negative and whether the errmsg parameter is non-NULL before deciding
whether to report the error or not. The situation is further complicated
by the fact that there are occasional instances where mdevctl exits with
an error status but does not print an error message. This results in
errmsg being an empty string "" (i.e. non-NULL).
Simplify the situation by ensuring that virReportError() is called for
all error conditions rather than returning an error message back to the
calling function.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
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==============================
Libvirt API for virtualization
==============================
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the
virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It
includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware
vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER
Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management
daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the
API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
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mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
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=======
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