On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 02:29:19PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I think having metadata is a good idea. At the very least it allows > you to have a tool where you can list available images, their sizes, > locations and notes. The virt-builder index ties in with libosinfo as > well, allowing a tool to download cloud images, consult the libosinfo > database, and present the guests with the right amount of RAM, correct > virtual devices and so on. One thing I should add: I'm not fussed about the specific format currently used by virt-builder for the index. However whatever format is used would need to contain at least the same information as the virt-builder index, and be signed. http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html#creating-and-signing-the-index-file Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
