On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 13:49 +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 01:30:42PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > > Add OS variant options to virt-convert. > > > > > > And use them to set ACPI, APIC, clock, and USB tablet. > > > > Again, I don't think libvirt domain XML should be handled by this tool > > precisely because of the issues you're attempting to address here. > > What do you mean "again" ? > > libvirt is only part of the problem: it's not the only virt format with > hypervisor specific settings. Even if you were to enforce the use of > virt-image, you've still got the same problems if we ever want true > mobility between other formats. > > Even worse, the image XML is very lossy. Whilst I imagine that > virt-image will *typically* be used, enforcing an information-removing > step doesn't make much sense to me. As far as this patch is concernd, ACPI and APIC can be requested in the virt-image XML; and clock and USB tablet should probably be added to it. The clock setting is a little weird, but I can imagine scenarios where that's not really a deployment specific option (or one that sets a default that can be overridden) What other VM attributes do you need to preserve ? Other things like MAC address fall into the category of 'needed in some cases, but not in others' IMHO > And finally, there is currently no way to generate image XML from a > domain config (AFAIK). Yes, that's definitely a gap. > So we want this for libvirt import anyway. Are you talking about a libvirt -> VMWare etc. conversion or something else ? David _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
