On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 05:42:07PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The patches we just applied for the VirtualBox open method still were
> not quite right. It would return VIR_DRV_OPEN_DECLINED when uri==NULL,
> but before doing so it would have set conn->uri to vbox:///session. So
> even though it declined the connection, all the later drivers would now
> ignore it. Also, it now returns DECLINED for some real errors that
> should be reported to the user.
>
> Here's an alternative idea I've had for trying to address this. Some
> goals:
>
> - If the user gives a URI with a vbox:/// prefix, we should always
> handle it, unless a 'server' is set when we leave it to the remote
> driver
> - If an invalid path is given we must give back a real error code
> - If after deciding the URI is for us, any initialization fails
> we must raise an error.
> - If the vbox glue layer is missing, we should still raise errors
> for requested URIs, so user knows their URI is correct.
Looks very sensible to me and much nicer than my original suggestion to
move VBoxCGlueInit() early into vboxOpen.
[..snip..]
> + _("no VirtualBox drviver path specified (try
> vbox:///session)"));
s/drviver/driver/
Cheers,
-- Guido
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