}
+/**
+ * virDBusCreateReplyV:
+ * @reply: pointer to be filled with a method reply message
+ * @types: type signature for following method arguments
+ * @args: method arguments
+ *
+ * This creates a DBus method reply message and saves a
+ * pointer to it in @reply.
+ *
+ * The @types parameter is a DBus signature describing
+ * the method call parameters which will be provided
+ * as variadic args. See virDBusCreateMethodV for a
+ * description of this parameter.
+ */
+int virDBusCreateReplyV(DBusMessage **reply,
+ const char *types,
+ va_list args)
+{
+ int ret = -1;
+
+ if (!(*reply = dbus_message_new(DBUS_MESSAGE_TYPE_METHOD_RETURN))) {
+ virReportOOMError();
+ goto cleanup;
+ }
+
+ if (virDBusMessageEncodeArgs(*reply, types, args) < 0) {
+ dbus_message_unref(*reply);
+ *reply = NULL;
+ goto cleanup;
+ }
+
+ ret = 0;
+ cleanup:
+ return ret;
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * virDBusCreateReply:
+ * @reply: pointer to be filled with a method reply message
+ * @types: type signature for following method arguments
+ * @...: method arguments
+ *
+ * See virDBusCreateReplyV for a description of the
+ * behaviour of this method.
+ */
+int virDBusCreateReply(DBusMessage **reply,
+ const char *types, ...)
+{
+ va_list args;
+ int ret;
+
+ va_start(args, types);
+ ret = virDBusCreateReplyV(reply, types, args);
+ va_end(args);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+
/**
* virDBusCall:
* @conn: a DBus connection
const char *member,
const char *types,
va_list args);
+int virDBusCreateReply(DBusMessage **reply,
+ const char *types, ...);
+int virDBusCreateReplyV(DBusMessage **reply,
+ const char *types,
+ va_list args);
int virDBusCallMethod(DBusConnection *conn,
DBusMessage **reply,