Re: [virt-tools-list] [PATCH virt-manager v4] Add inspection to virt-manager

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On 07/19/2011 08:47 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:46:49AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
Maybe we can cache the png data per detected OS value rather than per
VM? Not sure if that collides with licensing issues, but would likely
mean storing less data on disk.

You can't do that without getting into trademark issues.  The icon
that is displayed must have come from precisely the same guest.

The icons are not large anyhow.

One thing I meant to ask about Dan's proposal:

  $HOME/.local/libvirt/$CONN_URI/$DOMAIN_UUID/screenshot.png
  $HOME/.local/libvirt/$CONN_URI/$DOMAIN_UUID/icon.png
  $HOME/.local/libvirt/$CONN_URI/$DOMAIN_UUID/osinfo.json

Do we need the connection URI?  Isn't the dom UUID unique enough?

Technically, a UUID should be unique enough. But right now, libvirt does not enforce cross-connection uniqueness, and it is possible to reuse a uuid value across hypervisors (even though such reuse violates the definition of uuid), so using $CONN_URI protects us from that potential for reuse. Besides, we already use $CONN_URI in the paths of other files, such as per-domain logs (for example, /var/log/libvirt/$CONN_URI/$DOMAIN_NAME.log), so it's a reasonable proposal to keep that naming hierarchy elsewhere.

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