On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 02:22:00PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote> >> > - Store data about available installer ISOs, guests which are >> >> > archived and not known to libvirt. > > [...] > >> The metadata you mean? Yes, thats going to be in osinfo. I intend to >> write a minor that extracts just volume, system and publisher IDs and >> a boolean indicating if the ISO is bootable but all that doesn't need >> to use libosinfo (though there will be some minor duplication of >> code). > > I think we're talking at crossed purposes about the feature I > mentioned above. > > I mean that if I have a directory full of ISO files, then it should be > possible to make available some metadata about those files. I'm > considering an ISO to be a special sort of guest that hasn't been > installed yet. libvirt (nor libosinfo for that matter) doesn't > currently know anything about directories full of ISOs. Nor about > guest templates. Yeah I think while you were talking of keeping a common metadata table/db while I was talking about tracking of all ISOs that user have so any app/lib can just make a simple query to get the list. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list