On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 01:04:07PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I think we need a place to store general metadata about guests. > > > > Here are some uses: > > > > - Store data about available installer ISOs, guests which are > > archived and not known to libvirt. > > We will need this for our desktop integration plans but the > understanding is that we depend on Tracker[1] for this. Tracker will > need to be hacked to be able to differentiate between installer and > non-installer ISOs though but thats pretty much doable. I just wonder > if that solution also works for you? [...] > [1] http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/ Where was it planned? Tracker seems to be a desktop search engine. Can we make the data available to Tracker without requiring it? (Seems one has to write a "tracker miner" to do this) Do we know that Tracker will stay around long-term (unlike Beagle etc)? Is it available without requiring GNOME and other heavyweight deps (eg. servers, KDE)? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list