On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 03:13:13PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 04:10:52PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > To connect to the guest with ID 7 running under QEMU > > > > > > virt-viewer --connect qemu:///system 7 > > > > Can we *please* think about a standardized environment variable to set > > the default for --connect and which all tools are looking at? > > Yes, this would be useful. > > > virsh has VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI for that. > > > > I'd like to have *one* variable used by *all* libvirt-based tools, > > virt-viewer, virt-manager, virsh, ... We could simply reuse the virsh > > variable, or we could pick some other name without virsh in there, > > preferable also shorter and thus easier to remember. VIRT_URI maybe? > > We should probably apply the change to libvirt, so that if 'NULL' is used > for the connect URI for virConnectOpen, and VIRT_CONNECT_URI is set, then > NULL gets substituted with the value of the env variable. Yup that sounds reasonnable, we should update the documentation too in that case, but sounds fine to me, Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
