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# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4

# Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
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"""Possible vm modes for instances.

Compute instance vm modes represent the host/guest ABI used for the
virtual machine / container. Individual hypervisors may support
multiple different vm modes per host. Available vm modes for a hypervisor
driver may also vary according to the architecture it is running on.

The 'vm_mode' parameter can be set against an instance to
choose what sort of VM to boot.

"""

from nova import exception

HVM = "hvm"  # Fully virtualized
XEN = "xen"  # Xen 3.0 paravirtualized
UML = "uml"  # User Mode Linux paravirtualized
EXE = "exe"  # Executables in containers

ALL = [HVM, XEN, UML, EXE]


def get_from_instance(instance):
    mode = instance['vm_mode']

    if mode is None:
        return None

    mode = mode.lower()

    # For compatibility with pre-Folsom deployments
    if mode == "pv":
        mode = XEN

    if mode == "hv":
        mode = HVM

    if mode not in ALL:
        raise exception.Invalid("Unknown vm mode '%s'" % mode)

    return mode