Re: [PATCH 2/4] libxl: vcpuset: Check max_vcpus argument against the maximum number of vCPUs the guest has set.

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 03:11:11PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk writes ("[PATCH 2/4] libxl: vcpuset: Check max_vcpus argument against the maximum number of vCPUs the guest has set."):
> > The maximum number of VCPUs the guest can have is determined during
> > domain creation and is set by 'maxvcpus' parameter (in the guest
> > config). Trying to set the amount of vCPUs above said value
> > in vcpuset will result in an error - and we can catch it here
> > (instead of later in the function) and print a nice warning to the user.
> ...
> > +    rc = libxl_domain_info(ctx, &dominfo, domid);
> > +    if (rc == ERROR_INVAL) {
> > +        fprintf(stderr, "Error: Domain %u does not exist.\n", domid);
> > +        return -rc;
> 
> Do we really return ERROR_INVAL for this ?  ...   Looks like we do.
> 
> OK then, although we are definitely going to have to change that at
> some point.  How tiresome.

I could add a new type - ERROR_NOTFOUND (of course as a seperate patch)
and change all of the libxl_domain_info users to take advantage of that
if you would like?

> 
> Thanks,
> Ian.