The goal here is to reduce the amount of tick() polling that we do by default.
For things like pools, networks, and interfaces, the constant polling is
not very helpful and causes CPU churn and slowness for remote connections.
Switch to a more on demand style. Pages that want new information for
these objects now request a priority tick that only refreshes the info
we want.
This isn't perfect, but neither was the previous solution in the face of
things like XML updates behind our back. The real solution here is libvirt
event support across the board.
This base connection object will be used to simplify the API in various
places, reduce libvirt API calls, and better share code between virtinst
and virt-manager. For now it just centralizes connection opening.
This also exposed various places where our handling for older libvirt
was busted, so raise our minimum host version to 0.6.0, the first
version that supports threaded client requests.
Despite being a known quantity, autotools is so overkill for our needs,
so let's drop it and replace it with a much simpler and easy to customize
system.
