On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We should not assume we either have access to the ISO image, nor > rely on the output format of an external command. iso-info may change > the way it formats data. We might not even have the ISO image, for Yeah, I didn't mean to use exactly that command, but rather as an approach: extract as many fields/metadata that can be extracted quckly: System/Volume/iso9660 tree/size etc.. and do a checksum of all this to have only one match. > example, we may only have access to specific metadata fields via some > remote metadata API like udev or libvirt. That's why we need to explicitly > look at specific metadata attributes of the image. Right, I don't see why those data couldn't be extracted and stored seperately, and retrived remotely. -- Marc-André Lureau
