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I've been taking a long hard look at the protocol layer. It has evolved over a long time without any particular direction, and the result is, to say the least, not very organized. These patches take a first step at cleaning up the mess by abstracting out socket operations from the rest of the code. The purpose of this is to allow us to slot in a different connection layer under the

In no particular order. Some of these need further investigation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I had to patch libguestfs not to use febootstrap-supermin-helper --copy-kernel option. See attachment #1. This could be avoided by providing a newer febootstrap in Wheezy. I had to patch libguestfs to make it not use the (not working) virtio-scsi in old

This preliminary patch series adds a libvirt backend to libguestfs. It's for review only because although it launches the guest OK, there are some missing features that need to be implemented. The meat of the patch is in part 4/4. To save you the trouble of interpreting libxml2 fragments, an example of the generated XML and the corresponding qemu command line are attached below. Note the

This rounds off hotplugging support by allowing you to add and remove drives at any stage (before and after launch). Rich.

libguestfs has used double and triple underscores in identifiers. These aren't valid for global names in C++. (http://stackoverflow.com/a/228797) These large but completely mechanical patches change the illegal identifiers to legal ones. Rich.

This is the libguestfs companion patch to: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-September/msg00045.html Rich.

...v (guestfs_h *g, struct drive *drv, const char *selinux_imagelabel); static void drive_free_priv (void *); static void set_socket_create_context (guestfs_h *g); static void clear_socket_create_context (guestfs_h *g); @@ -235,18 +236,18 @@ launch_libvirt (guestfs_h *g, const char *libvirt_uri) guestfs___launch_send_progress (g, 3); TRACE0 (launch_build_libvirt_appliance_end); - /* Create overlays for read-only drives and the appliance. This - * works around lack of support for <transient/> disks in libvirt. - * Note that appliance can be NULL if using the old-style appliance. - */ + /* Note that ap...

This is, I guess, version 3 of this patch series which adds disk labels and hotplugging (only hot-add implemented so far). The good news is .. it works! Rich.

Inspired by libvirt's virCommand* internal mini-library, this adds some internal APIs for running commands. The first patch contains the new APIs. The subsequent patches change various parts of the library over to use it. Rich.

In the kernel and qemu communities it is routine for patches that will be backported to stable branches to be posted for review. I'm proposing we do the same for libguestfs stable branches. All of the attached have been tested with 'make check-release'. Rich.