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Matthias Bolte befc36a81d esx: Fix dynamic VI object type detection 
VI objects support inheritance with subtype polymorphism. For example the
FileInfo object type is extended by FloppyImageFileInfo, FolderFileInfo
etc. Then SearchDatastore_Task returns an array of FileInfo objects and
depending on the represented file the FileInfo is actually a FolderFileInfo
or FloppyImageFileInfo etc. The actual type information is stored as XML
attribute that allows clients such as libvirt to distinguish between the
actual types. esxVI_GetActualObjectType is used to extract the actual type.

I assumed that this mechanism would be used for all VI object types that
have subtypes. But this is not the case. It seems only to be used for types
that are actually used as generic base type such as FileInfo. But it is not
used for types that got extended later such as ElementDescription that was
extended by ExtendedElementDescription (added in vSphere API 4.0) or that
are not meant to be used with subtype polymorphism.

This breaks the deserialization of types that contain ElementDescription
properties such as PerfCounterInfo or ChoiceOption, because the code
expects an ElementDescription object to have an XML attribute named type
that is not present, since ExtendedElementDescription was added to the
esx_vi_generator.input in commit 60f0f55ee4.
This in turn break virtual machine question handling and auto answering.

Fix this by using the base type if no XML type attribute is present.
2013-05-24 21:31:42 +02:00
.gnulib@a363f4ed4a build: update to latest gnulib, for syntax-check 2013-05-10 20:52:57 -06:00
build-aux syntax-check: ignore all quoted strings in bracket-spacing 2013-05-24 15:57:45 +02:00
daemon daemon: Remove the whitespace before ";" 2013-05-21 23:41:45 +08:00
docs docs: domain: /dev/urandom isn't a valid rng patch 2013-05-23 14:37:08 -04:00
examples examples: Remove the whitespace before ';' 2013-05-21 23:41:45 +08:00
gnulib maint: use LGPL correctly 2013-05-20 14:03:48 -06:00
include Change virConnectDomainEventGraphicsCallback signature 2013-05-22 18:53:59 +02:00
m4 FreeBSD: disable buggy -fstack-protector-all 2013-05-15 15:20:52 -06:00
po utils: util functions for scsi hostdev 2013-05-13 18:40:50 +08:00
python python: Remove the whitespace before ";" 2013-05-21 23:41:45 +08:00
src esx: Fix dynamic VI object type detection 2013-05-24 21:31:42 +02:00
tests virStrndup: Accept negative values as string length 2013-05-24 16:59:30 +02:00
tools virsh: Fix regression of vol-resize 2013-05-24 16:55:39 +08:00
.dir-locals.el build: avoid tabs that failed syntax-check 2012-09-06 09:43:46 -06:00
.gitignore maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.mailmap Autogenerate AUTHORS 2012-10-19 12:44:56 -04:00
AUTHORS.in Add John Ferlan to the committers list 2013-02-05 10:59:32 -05:00
autobuild.sh Set PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR in autobuild.sh 2013-05-17 17:09:29 +01:00
autogen.sh build: fix incremental autogen.sh when no AUTHORS is present 2012-12-03 14:59:09 -07:00
bootstrap maint: update to latest gnulib 2013-05-08 14:54:04 -06:00
bootstrap.conf Include GNULIB mkdtemp module 2013-05-17 17:09:29 +01:00
cfg.mk Introduce syntax-check rule to prefer VIR_STRDUP over strdup 2013-05-24 10:13:02 +02:00
ChangeLog-old virterror.c: Fix several spelling mistakes 2012-02-03 11:32:51 -07:00
configure.ac maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
COPYING maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
COPYING.LESSER maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
HACKING string: make VIR_STRDUP easier to use 2013-05-07 13:21:31 -06:00
libvirt.pc.in build: silence warning from autoconf 2012-05-30 09:22:02 -06:00
libvirt.spec.in spec: Build vbox packages only for x86 architectures 2013-05-24 10:11:00 -06:00
Makefile.am maint: use LGPL correctly 2013-05-20 14:03:48 -06:00
Makefile.nonreentrant maint: use LGPL correctly 2013-05-20 14:03:48 -06:00
mingw-libvirt.spec.in test: Return Libvirt logo as domain screenshot 2013-04-02 14:38:56 +02:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
README-hacking maint: relax git minimum version 2010-02-24 14:29:27 -05:00
run.in run: license as LGPL 2013-02-23 14:03:19 -07:00
TODO Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website 2010-10-13 16:45:26 +01:00

README 

         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>