## libvirt-nodedev

libvirt-nodedev - APIs for management of nodedevs

Provides APIs for the management of nodedevs Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Red Hat, Inc. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## Synopsis

    #define VIR_NODE_DEVICE_EVENT_CALLBACK;
    typedef enum virConnectListAllNodeDeviceFlags;
    typedef struct _virNodeDevice virNodeDevice;
    typedef enum virNodeDeviceEventID;
    typedef enum virNodeDeviceEventLifecycleType;
    typedef virNodeDevice * virNodeDevicePtr;
    int	virConnectListAllNodeDevices	(virConnectPtr conn,
    					 virNodeDevicePtr ** devices,
    					 unsigned int flags);
    int	virConnectNodeDeviceEventDeregisterAny	(virConnectPtr conn,
    						 int callbackID);
    typedef void virConnectNodeDeviceEventGenericCallback	(virConnectPtr conn,
    							 virNodeDevicePtr dev,
    							 void * opaque);
    typedef void virConnectNodeDeviceEventLifecycleCallback	(virConnectPtr conn,
    							 virNodeDevicePtr dev,
    							 int event,
    							 int detail,
    							 void * opaque);
    int	virConnectNodeDeviceEventRegisterAny	(virConnectPtr conn,
    						 virNodeDevicePtr dev,
    						 int eventID,
    						 virConnectNodeDeviceEventGenericCallback cb,
    						 void * opaque,
    						 virFreeCallback freecb);
    virNodeDevicePtr	virNodeDeviceCreateXML	(virConnectPtr conn,
    						 const char * xmlDesc,
    						 unsigned int flags);
    int	virNodeDeviceDestroy		(virNodeDevicePtr dev);
    int	virNodeDeviceDetachFlags	(virNodeDevicePtr dev,
    					 const char * driverName,
    					 unsigned int flags);
    int	virNodeDeviceDettach		(virNodeDevicePtr dev);
    int	virNodeDeviceFree		(virNodeDevicePtr dev);
    const char *	virNodeDeviceGetName	(virNodeDevicePtr dev);
    const char *	virNodeDeviceGetParent	(virNodeDevicePtr dev);
    char *	virNodeDeviceGetXMLDesc		(virNodeDevicePtr dev,
    					 unsigned int flags);
    int	virNodeDeviceListCaps		(virNodeDevicePtr dev,
    					 char ** const names,
    					 int maxnames);
    virNodeDevicePtr	virNodeDeviceLookupByName	(virConnectPtr conn,
    							 const char * name);
    virNodeDevicePtr	virNodeDeviceLookupSCSIHostByWWN	(virConnectPtr conn,
    							 const char * wwnn,
    							 const char * wwpn,
    							 unsigned int flags);
    int	virNodeDeviceNumOfCaps		(virNodeDevicePtr dev);
    int	virNodeDeviceReAttach		(virNodeDevicePtr dev);
    int	virNodeDeviceRef		(virNodeDevicePtr dev);
    int	virNodeDeviceReset		(virNodeDevicePtr dev);
    int	virNodeListDevices		(virConnectPtr conn,
    					 const char * cap,
    					 char ** const names,
    					 int maxnames,
    					 unsigned int flags);
    int	virNodeNumOfDevices		(virConnectPtr conn,
    					 const char * cap,
    					 unsigned int flags);

## Description

## Details

### Macro VIR_NODE_DEVICE_EVENT_CALLBACK

    #define VIR_NODE_DEVICE_EVENT_CALLBACK;

Used to cast the event specific callback into the generic one for use for virConnectNodeDeviceEventRegisterAny()

### Enum virConnectListAllNodeDeviceFlags

    enum virConnectListAllNodeDeviceFlags {
        VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_SYSTEM = 1 /* System capability */
        VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_PCI_DEV = 2 /* PCI device */
        VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_USB_DEV = 4 /* USB device */
        VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_USB_INTERFACE = 8 /* USB interface */
        VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_NET = 16 /* Network device */
        VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_SCSI_HOST = 32 /* SCSI Host Bus Adapter */
        VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_SCSI_TARGET = 64 /* SCSI Target */
        VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_SCSI = 128 /* SCSI device */
        VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_STORAGE = 256 /* Storage device */
        VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_FC_HOST = 512 /* FC Host Bus Adapter */
        VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_VPORTS = 1024 /* Capable of vport */
        VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_SCSI_GENERIC = 2048 /* Capable of scsi_generic */
        VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_DRM = 4096 /* DRM device */
        VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_MDEV_TYPES = 8192 /* Capable of mediated devices */
        VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_MDEV = 16384 /* Mediated device */
        VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_CCW_DEV = 32768 /* CCW device */
    };

### Structure virNodeDevice

    struct _virNodeDevice {
    The content of this structure is not made public by the API.
    } virNodeDevice;

### Enum virNodeDeviceEventID

    enum virNodeDeviceEventID {
        VIR_NODE_DEVICE_EVENT_ID_LIFECYCLE = 0 /* virConnectNodeDeviceEventLifecycleCallback */
        VIR_NODE_DEVICE_EVENT_ID_UPDATE = 1 /* virConnectNodeDeviceEventGenericCallback */
        VIR_NODE_DEVICE_EVENT_ID_LAST = 2 /* NB: this enum value will increase over time as new events are  added to the libvirt API. It reflects the last event ID supported  by this version of the libvirt API. */
    };

### Enum virNodeDeviceEventLifecycleType

    enum virNodeDeviceEventLifecycleType {
        VIR_NODE_DEVICE_EVENT_CREATED = 0
        VIR_NODE_DEVICE_EVENT_DELETED = 1
        VIR_NODE_DEVICE_EVENT_LAST = 2
    };

### Typedef virNodeDevicePtr

    virNodeDevice * virNodeDevicePtr;

A virNodeDevicePtr is a pointer to a virNodeDevice structure. Get one via virNodeDeviceLookupByName, or virNodeDeviceCreate. Be sure to call virNodeDeviceFree when done using a virNodeDevicePtr obtained from any of the above functions to avoid leaking memory.

### Function type virConnectNodeDeviceEventGenericCallback

    void	virConnectNodeDeviceEventGenericCallback	(virConnectPtr conn,
    							 virNodeDevicePtr dev,
    							 void * opaque)

A generic node device event callback handler, for use with virConnectNodeDeviceEventRegisterAny(). Specific events usually have a customization with extra parameters, often with @opaque being passed in a different parameter position; use VIR_NODE_DEVICE_EVENT_CALLBACK() when registering an appropriate handler.

`conn`: | the connection pointer
`dev`: | the node device pointer
`opaque`: | application specified data

### Function type virConnectNodeDeviceEventLifecycleCallback

    void	virConnectNodeDeviceEventLifecycleCallback	(virConnectPtr conn,
    							 virNodeDevicePtr dev,
    							 int event,
    							 int detail,
    							 void * opaque)

This callback is called when a node device lifecycle action is performed, like added or removed. The callback signature to use when registering for an event of type VIR_NODE_DEVICE_EVENT_ID_LIFECYCLE with virConnectNodeDeviceEventRegisterAny()

`conn`: | connection object
`dev`: | node device on which the event occurred
`event`: | The specific virNodeDeviceEventLifeCycleType which occurred
`detail`: | contains some details on the reason of the event.
`opaque`: | application specified data

### virConnectListAllNodeDevices ()

    int	virConnectListAllNodeDevices	(virConnectPtr conn,
    					 virNodeDevicePtr ** devices,
    					 unsigned int flags)

Collect the list of node devices, and allocate an array to store those objects. Normally, all node devices are returned; however, @flags can be used to filter the results for a smaller list of targeted node devices. The valid flags are divided into groups, where each group contains bits that describe mutually exclusive attributes of a node device, and where all bits within a group describe all possible node devices. Only one group of the @flags is provided to filter the node devices by capability type, flags include: VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_SYSTEM VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_PCI_DEV VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_USB_DEV VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_USB_INTERFACE VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_NET VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_SCSI_HOST VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_SCSI_TARGET VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_SCSI VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_STORAGE VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_FC_HOST VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_VPORTS VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_SCSI_GENERIC VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_DRM VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_MDEV_TYPES VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_MDEV VIR_CONNECT_LIST_NODE_DEVICES_CAP_CCW_DEV

`conn`: | Pointer to the hypervisor connection.
`devices`: | Pointer to a variable to store the array containing the node device objects or NULL if the list is not required (just returns number of node devices).
`flags`: | bitwise-OR of virConnectListAllNodeDeviceFlags.
`Returns`: | the number of node devices found or -1 and sets @devices to NULL in case of error. On success, the array stored into @devices is guaranteed to have an extra allocated element set to NULL but not included in the return count, to make iteration easier. The caller is responsible for calling virNodeDeviceFree() on each array element, then calling free() on @devices.

### virConnectNodeDeviceEventDeregisterAny ()

    int	virConnectNodeDeviceEventDeregisterAny	(virConnectPtr conn,
    						 int callbackID)

Removes an event callback. The callbackID parameter should be the value obtained from a previous virConnectNodeDeviceEventRegisterAny() method.

`conn`: | pointer to the connection
`callbackID`: | the callback identifier
`Returns`: | 0 on success, -1 on failure.

### virConnectNodeDeviceEventRegisterAny ()

    int	virConnectNodeDeviceEventRegisterAny	(virConnectPtr conn,
    						 virNodeDevicePtr dev,
    						 int eventID,
    						 virConnectNodeDeviceEventGenericCallback cb,
    						 void * opaque,
    						 virFreeCallback freecb)

Adds a callback to receive notifications of arbitrary node device events occurring on a node device. This function requires that an event loop has been previously registered with virEventRegisterImpl() or virEventRegisterDefaultImpl(). If @dev is NULL, then events will be monitored for any node device. If @dev is non-NULL, then only the specific node device will be monitored. Most types of events have a callback providing a custom set of parameters for the event. When registering an event, it is thus necessary to use the VIR_NODE_DEVICE_EVENT_CALLBACK() macro to cast the supplied function pointer to match the signature of this method. The virNodeDevicePtr object handle passed into the callback upon delivery of an event is only valid for the duration of execution of the callback. If the callback wishes to keep the node device object after the callback returns, it shall take a reference to it, by calling virNodeDeviceRef(). The reference can be released once the object is no longer required by calling virNodeDeviceFree(). The return value from this method is a positive integer identifier for the callback. To unregister a callback, this callback ID should be passed to the virConnectNodeDeviceEventDeregisterAny() method.

`conn`: | pointer to the connection
`dev`: | pointer to the node device
`eventID`: | the event type to receive
`cb`: | callback to the function handling node device events
`opaque`: | opaque data to pass on to the callback
`freecb`: | optional function to deallocate opaque when not used anymore
`Returns`: | a callback identifier on success, -1 on failure.

### virNodeDeviceCreateXML ()

    virNodeDevicePtr	virNodeDeviceCreateXML	(virConnectPtr conn,
    						 const char * xmlDesc,
    						 unsigned int flags)

Create a new device on the VM host machine, for example, virtual HBAs created using vport_create. virNodeDeviceFree should be used to free the resources after the node device object is no longer needed.

`conn`: | pointer to the hypervisor connection
`xmlDesc`: | string containing an XML description of the device to be created
`flags`: | extra flags; not used yet, so callers should always pass 0
`Returns`: | a node device object if successful, NULL in case of failure

### virNodeDeviceDestroy ()

    int	virNodeDeviceDestroy		(virNodeDevicePtr dev)

Destroy the device object. The virtual device (only works for vHBA currently) is removed from the host operating system. This function may require privileged access.

`dev`: | a device object
`Returns`: | 0 in case of success and -1 in case of failure.

### virNodeDeviceDetachFlags ()

    int	virNodeDeviceDetachFlags	(virNodeDevicePtr dev,
    					 const char * driverName,
    					 unsigned int flags)

Detach the node device from the node itself so that it may be assigned to a guest domain. Depending on the hypervisor, this may involve operations such as unbinding any device drivers from the device, binding the device to a dummy device driver and resetting the device. Different backend drivers expect the device to be bound to different dummy devices. For example, QEMU's "kvm" backend driver (the default) expects the device to be bound to "pci-stub", but its "vfio" backend driver expects the device to be bound to "vfio-pci". If the device is currently in use by the node, this method may fail. Once the device is not assigned to any guest, it may be re-attached to the node using the virNodeDeviceReAttach() method.

`dev`: | pointer to the node device
`driverName`: | name of backend driver that will be used for later device assignment to a domain. NULL means "use the hypervisor default driver"
`flags`: | extra flags; not used yet, so callers should always pass 0
`Returns`: | 0 in case of success, -1 in case of failure.

### virNodeDeviceDettach ()

    int	virNodeDeviceDettach		(virNodeDevicePtr dev)

Dettach the node device from the node itself so that it may be assigned to a guest domain. Depending on the hypervisor, this may involve operations such as unbinding any device drivers from the device, binding the device to a dummy device driver and resetting the device. If the device is currently in use by the node, this method may fail. Once the device is not assigned to any guest, it may be re-attached to the node using the virNodeDeviceReattach() method. If the caller needs control over which backend driver will be used during PCI device assignment (to use something other than the default, for example VFIO), the newer virNodeDeviceDetachFlags() API should be used instead.

`dev`: | pointer to the node device
`Returns`: | 0 in case of success, -1 in case of failure.

### virNodeDeviceFree ()

    int	virNodeDeviceFree		(virNodeDevicePtr dev)

Drops a reference to the node device, freeing it if this was the last reference.

`dev`: | pointer to the node device
`Returns`: | the 0 for success, -1 for error.

### virNodeDeviceGetName ()

    const char *	virNodeDeviceGetName	(virNodeDevicePtr dev)

Just return the device name

`dev`: | the device
`Returns`: | the device name or NULL in case of error

### virNodeDeviceGetParent ()

    const char *	virNodeDeviceGetParent	(virNodeDevicePtr dev)

Accessor for the parent of the device

`dev`: | the device
`Returns`: | the name of the device's parent, or NULL if an error occurred or when the device has no parent.

### virNodeDeviceGetXMLDesc ()

    char *	virNodeDeviceGetXMLDesc		(virNodeDevicePtr dev,
    					 unsigned int flags)

Fetch an XML document describing all aspects of the device.

`dev`: | pointer to the node device
`flags`: | extra flags; not used yet, so callers should always pass 0
`Returns`: | the XML document, or NULL on error

### virNodeDeviceListCaps ()

    int	virNodeDeviceListCaps		(virNodeDevicePtr dev,
    					 char ** const names,
    					 int maxnames)

Lists the names of the capabilities supported by the device.

`dev`: | the device
`names`: | array to collect the list of capability names
`maxnames`: | size of @names
`Returns`: | the number of capability names listed in @names or -1 in case of error.

### virNodeDeviceLookupByName ()

    virNodeDevicePtr	virNodeDeviceLookupByName	(virConnectPtr conn,
    							 const char * name)

Lookup a node device by its name. virNodeDeviceFree should be used to free the resources after the node device object is no longer needed.

`conn`: | pointer to the hypervisor connection
`name`: | unique device name
`Returns`: | a virNodeDevicePtr if found, NULL otherwise.

### virNodeDeviceLookupSCSIHostByWWN ()

    virNodeDevicePtr	virNodeDeviceLookupSCSIHostByWWN	(virConnectPtr conn,
    							 const char * wwnn,
    							 const char * wwpn,
    							 unsigned int flags)

Lookup SCSI Host which is capable with 'fc_host' by its WWNN and WWPN. virNodeDeviceFree should be used to free the resources after the node device object is no longer needed.

`conn`: | pointer to the hypervisor connection
`wwnn`: | WWNN of the SCSI Host.
`wwpn`: | WWPN of the SCSI Host.
`flags`: | extra flags; not used yet, so callers should always pass 0
`Returns`: | a virNodeDevicePtr if found, NULL otherwise.

### virNodeDeviceNumOfCaps ()

    int	virNodeDeviceNumOfCaps		(virNodeDevicePtr dev)

Accessor for the number of capabilities supported by the device.

`dev`: | the device
`Returns`: | the number of capabilities supported by the device or -1 in case of error.

### virNodeDeviceReAttach ()

    int	virNodeDeviceReAttach		(virNodeDevicePtr dev)

Re-attach a previously detached node device to the node so that it may be used by the node again. Depending on the hypervisor, this may involve operations such as resetting the device, unbinding it from a dummy device driver and binding it to its appropriate driver. If the device is currently in use by a guest, this method may fail.

`dev`: | pointer to the node device
`Returns`: | 0 in case of success, -1 in case of failure.

### virNodeDeviceRef ()

    int	virNodeDeviceRef		(virNodeDevicePtr dev)

Increment the reference count on the dev. For each additional call to this method, there shall be a corresponding call to virNodeDeviceFree to release the reference count, once the caller no longer needs the reference to this object. This method is typically useful for applications where multiple threads are using a connection, and it is required that the connection remain open until all threads have finished using it. ie, each new thread using a dev would increment the reference count.

`dev`: | the dev to hold a reference on
`Returns`: | 0 in case of success, -1 in case of failure.

### virNodeDeviceReset ()

    int	virNodeDeviceReset		(virNodeDevicePtr dev)

Reset a previously detached node device to the node before or after assigning it to a guest. The exact reset semantics depends on the hypervisor and device type but, for example, KVM will attempt to reset PCI devices with a Function Level Reset, Secondary Bus Reset or a Power Management D-State reset. If the reset will affect other devices which are currently in use, this function may fail.

`dev`: | pointer to the node device
`Returns`: | 0 in case of success, -1 in case of failure.

### virNodeListDevices ()

    int	virNodeListDevices		(virConnectPtr conn,
    					 const char * cap,
    					 char ** const names,
    					 int maxnames,
    					 unsigned int flags)

Collect the list of node devices, and store their names in @names For more control over the results, see virConnectListAllNodeDevices(). If the optional 'cap' argument is non-NULL, then the count will be restricted to devices with the specified capability

`conn`: | pointer to the hypervisor connection
`cap`: | capability name
`names`: | array to collect the list of node device names
`maxnames`: | size of @names
`flags`: | extra flags; not used yet, so callers should always pass 0
`Returns`: | the number of node devices found or -1 in case of error

### virNodeNumOfDevices ()

    int	virNodeNumOfDevices		(virConnectPtr conn,
    					 const char * cap,
    					 unsigned int flags)

Provides the number of node devices. If the optional 'cap' argument is non-NULL, then the count will be restricted to devices with the specified capability

`conn`: | pointer to the hypervisor connection
`cap`: | capability name
`flags`: | extra flags; not used yet, so callers should always pass 0
`Returns`: | the number of node devices or -1 in case of error