Bug 1319527

Summary:	RFE: Add API to list libvirt APIs implemented by the hypervisor driver
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
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Description Cole Robinson 2016-03-20 22:24:44 UTC

There's no programmatic way for apps to determine if a libvirt HV driver supports a particular API or not. For example at the time of this writing the only libvirt driver that supports virDomainReset is qemu. If virt-manager wants to show the reset option for supported hypervisors we need to keep our own whitelist to track it (which we do, see https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/blob/master/virtinst/support.py )

Libvirt should provide an API that at least tells us if the driver has an implementation or not. Eric spec'd it out briefly a while back:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-September/msg01170.html

Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2021-08-18 09:58:40 UTC

Closing this RFE since there's no sign of anyone actively working on this in the 5 years since it was filed.