On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 08:22:16AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> 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.
If we keep to a flat list, then trivial answer here is to just use the
official distro name given by the vendor/distributor.
Daniel
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