On 06/15/2009 08:15 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 06:50:02PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> The public API looks like:
>>
>> /**
>> * Values stored in the OS dictionary
>> */
>> enum _os_value_type {
>> OS_VALUE_NAME = 1, /** Human readable family/distro... name */
>> OS_VALUE_MEDIA_INSTALL_URL, /** URL to an install tree */
>> };
>> typedef enum _os_value_type os_value_t;
>>
>> int os_init();
>> void os_close();
>>
>> int os_find_families (char ***list);
>> int os_find_distros (const char *parent_id, char ***list);
>> int os_find_releases (const char *parent_id, char ***list);
>> int os_find_updates (const char *parent_id, char ***list);
>>
>> int os_lookup_value (os_value_t value_type,
>> const char *os_id,
>> char **value);
>
> There's a (little) overlap and a possible user in virt-inspector.
>
> In virt-inspector we do things the other way around - we look inside
> the guest for files like /etc/redhat-release and /etc/debian_version,
> and parse those to determine the OS distro and release (also we parse
> the registry to do the same for Windows). The code for Linux is here:
>
> http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=inspector/virt-inspector.pl;h=1d8a84b424eb73ceafee041f0e1d76d371506aa7;hb=HEAD#l410
>
> It would be nice for virt-inspector to output ID strings which are
> compatible with osinfo.
>
Agreed, I was thinking something along the same lines.
> 'Course we'll need Perl bindings. Did you see this?
>
> http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/generating-code/
>
Thanks, I'll take a look.
- Cole
_______________________________________________
et-mgmt-tools mailing list
et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
