On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 09:44:47AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 03:18:57PM -0400, David Lively wrote: > > Hi - > > > > I'm about to start working on host device enumeration, along the > > (HAL-ish) lines of what was discussed back in April: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-April/msg00005.html > > > > I know the xml details haven't been fully fleshed out, but there seems > > to be agreement that it will be a fairly direct mapping from (a subset > > of the) HAL info to the details that we need in the xml. Doubtless it > > will take a while to figure out exactly what subset suffices (and, for > > that matter, if everything needed is available via HAL ...), but I think > > the work is well-defined for some of the obvious details (discussed in > > the above thread) on which there's broad agreement. > > > > Is anyone working on such an implementation? > > No one that I'm aware of - so go for it. FYI, one complication has come > up since my initial proposal. HAL is going away, to be replaced by > DeviceKit :-( That said they will co-exist and HAL will be around for > a while and they will both expose very similar properties for devices > so it shouldn't too much trouble. I think we just need to be conservative > when deciding how many of the HAL properties we need to add in libvirt. > I'd go for a pretty minimal set at first. And HAL based detection might work on more platforms at least initially like OpenSolaris, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list