On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 05:26:45PM +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > One problem here is the essential guestOS field of the VMX config, see > > http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-guestos.html . For a first try I would > > set it to 'other' by default, because there is currently no field > > available in the domain XML to map this information to. But to allow > > the user to set this filed, I would want to extend to domain XML > > definition in order to reuse existing code. So how would I do this? > > Hum, that need to be though out a bit, as we do the same kind of > things at the higher level (e.g. virt-install) and then convert that > to various tweaks in the XML. I think Cole was starting to write a > library to ease making per OS guest definitions, maybe we need to > bring this down to libvirt level. I doubt the format at the XML level > will be very hard, it's more a problem of making the information > database available globally for the whole stack, either within libvirt > or as a component that can be called consistently from top to bottom. The information at the virt-install level is alot of fine grained, and currently planed to be based of the full release name of each OS. I don't think there's any need to pull the full information into libvirt - this library cole is writing is actaully standalone and independnat of any particular tool. What we really need to figure out is how to map/cross-reference there data where needed. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list