On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 10:09:03AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > ie essentially encode the file content probing rules that libguestfs > has, as osinfo DB information, so that it becomes user extendable in > the normal way we do for ISO/install tree. Admittedly the image probing > rules are significantly more complicated than ISO/install tree probiing > rules, but I think it is doable if we wanted to. It ultimately just > comes down to a (very large) set of file content matches. It's rather more complicated than that. It's definitely not true to say that libguestfs is just doing some regexps over files. Also I think this duplicates the functionality of other tools (notably facter, but there are others). Just tell people to use facter if they are running "in guest". Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ Libosinfo mailing list Libosinfo@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libosinfo
