non-treeinfo redhat only applies to pre RHEL5.4 and very old
Fedora. It's not worth it anymore to slow down all URL lookups
and maintain code complexity to handle such long out of date
distros.
GenericDistro doesn't actually apply to any public trees that I
can find, except for some with TreeInfo. So turn it into
GenericTreeinfoDistro. If random URL trees want to work with
virt-install, add a treeinfo file
There's lots of hacks stuffed into the domain device lists. Formalize
some of it, move some of the specific stuff to details.py, and drop
a lot of the needless API wrappers
The way we enumerate devices doesn't conform with the way all
other XMLBuilder instances expose child objects. Move more towards
that direction.
This requires some virt-xml and cli.py hacks but we will remove those
in future patches
Kind of a big mess but it was difficult to untangle piecemeal.
Basically this drops nearly all the centralized window tracking
in engine.py and moves it to each UI class. If manager.py wants
to open a details window it does it directly, and vmmDetails tracks
the window object list itself. This simplifies things and makes
the code easier to follow.
There's still some weirdness with vmmConnect and connection callbacks,
but future patches will break those apart.
Using these for long term TODO type items is not effective, however
it's nice to label things as FIXME during a coding session and have
pylint warn you about them before pushing.
If we try to run the testsuite on anything older than libvirt 3.1,
it immediately throws an exception before processing any tests,
due to choking on parsing drm bits from testdriver.xml. This global
failure is only due to sloppy coding though.
Turn all test cases that use testdriver.xml into skips in this case,
so we can at least get some test coverage otherwise.
Right now, most test cases will create a libvirt test driver using
tests/testdriver.xml. This is problematic for 2 reasons:
1) testdriver.xml is 3500 lines of XML, and it's parsed hundreds of
times. Opening it is responsible for about 25% of test suite time
2) Older libvirt chokes on testdriver.xml, meaning the test suite will
be useless there. This is a recurring problem as new features are
added to testdriver.xml
Most test cases don't actually need all the test state in testdriver.xml
though. So this creates a smaller testsuite.xml which has a lower
libvirt requirement and is much quicker to parse. New XML bits should
continue to go into testdriver.xml so we can keep testsuite.xml as
the more stripped down option.
Moves the libxml2 bits to a separate xmlapi file and class, a bunch
of cleanups to xmlbuilder internals dealing with XML stuff.
The main point is to experiment with different XML library impls,
since libxml2 is unfun to deal with and we are having python3
issues like
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776815
Could mean a code error but more likely is just slightly racy
UI bits disappearing that we weren't looking for anyways, so hide
it behind a debug statement
Cole Robinson
Radostin Stoyanov
Marc-André Lureau
Chen Hanxiao