On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:14:09AM +1100, Justin Clift wrote: > Hi all, > > Had a thought the other night, about a possible approach to having a "per user" libvirt preferences file. > > How about, in the user's home directory, we have a single text file, say ".libvirt-prefs", structured something like this: > > [common] > default_uri = qemu+ssh://somehost/system > default_socket = /path/to/somewhere-socket > default_session_type = system > tls_client_cert = /path/to/somewhere.cert > tls_client_key = /path/to/somewhere.key > log_file=/path/to/logfile.log > some_other_preference=value This is fine, except that default_session_type and default_socket are already encoded as part of the URI. > [gtk-vnc] > tls_client_cert = /path/that/overrides/the/common/section/if/present/somefile.cert > tls_client_key = /path/that/overrides/the/common/section/if/present/somefile.key gtk-vnc is not tied to libvirt and so won't be using libvirt to store its preferences. Setting defaults for the library is really an application level problem, so it'd be part of say virt-viewer preferences > [virt-viewer] > more_overrides=/value/foo This isn't really something virt-viewer wants to use either. As a graphical desktop application, any preferences will belong in GConf / GSettings, as does virt-manager. So I'd really just call this ~/.virshrc Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.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