On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:48:26PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:27:42PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > One thing which is very apparent is that sys admins using libvirt / > > virsh have a great deal of difficulty understanding "where the > > configuration files have gone" and how to edit them. > > .py files and the like were supposed to be human editable. I'm not > convinced that libvirt XML is (heck, I certainly can't remember it). > > Isn't the *right* solution to this problem to finally add property > set/get interface for the things people actually want to modify, like > boot flags? Do you mean things like the current 'virsh attach-device' / 'virsh detach-device' interface? I'm responding here to a need that sysadmins feel they have -- to edit the configuration file (even if it's XML). Witness an endless series of questions on this subject on the #virt channel yesterday. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list