Re: [PATCH 09 of 11] virt-convert: Add OS variant options

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On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:50:12PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:

> Duplicating the internal OS dictionary in man pages isn't
> helpful: we should just add a cli option to virt-install
> (maybe all the tools that use the dict?) to dump the dictionary
> in a readable manner and exit. That way the man pages can
> just say 'see "virt-install --show-me-the-money" for a 
> complete list.'

Yes. In fact we have a requirement for dumping this in a parsable way
too for higher-level tools to comprehend.

> VMX files have a field which specifies the guest os: we should
> probably try to translate that into an entry in the virtinst
> OS dict if the user doesn't supply one.

I'll try to take a look at this.

> Also I think the virt-image format should have an entry for
> the OS type of the guest, so we should probably add this
> option to virt-image as well.

Agreed

regards,
john

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