libxl: Add support for virtio-disk configurationreview/ioreq-v3

This patch adds basic support for configuring and assisting virtio-disk
backend (emualator) which is intended to run out of Qemu and could be run
in any domain.

Xenstore was chosen as a communication interface for the emulator running
in non-toolstack domain to be able to get configuration either by reading
Xenstore directly or by receiving command line parameters (an updated 'xl devd'
running in the same domain would read Xenstore beforehand and call backend
executable with the required arguments).

An example of domain configuration (two disks are assigned to the guest,
the latter is in readonly mode):

vdisk = [ 'backend=DomD, disks=rw:/dev/mmcblk0p3;ro:/dev/mmcblk1p3' ]

Where per-disk Xenstore entries are:
- filename and readonly flag (configured via "vdisk" property)
- base and irq (allocated dynamically)

Besides handling 'visible' params described in configuration file,
patch also allocates virtio-mmio specific ones for each device and
writes them into Xenstore. virtio-mmio params (irq and base) are
unique per guest domain, they allocated at the domain creation time
and passed through to the emulator. Each VirtIO device has at least
one pair of these params.

TODO:
1. An extra "virtio" property could be removed.
2. Update documentation.

Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>

Message-Id: <1606732298-22107-24-git-send-email-olekstysh@gmail.com>

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