Re: [libvirt] [virt-tools-list] Proposal: A place to store metadata about guests
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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(a)redhat.com>
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?
In a meeting we (a few members of the SPICE team) had at the
desktop summit together with designers. Its not really a plan plan but
more like a general agreement/understanding for now and we still await
the designers to finalize it all.
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)
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).
Do we know that Tracker will stay around long-term (unlike Beagle
etc)?
Beagle never really stayed around but Tracker hasn't just been
around for quite some time now but is also a blessed dependency in
GNOME and some of the core hackers of it are trust-worthy GNOME
hackers.
Is it available without requiring GNOME and other heavyweight deps
(eg. servers, KDE)?
Yes! You still need dbus session though.
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Regards,
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124