Re: [libvirt] domain XML for tracking libosinfo ID

On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 03:44:12PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: > Right now in virt-manager we only track a VM's OS name (win10, fedora28, > etc.) during the VM install phase. This piece of data is important > post-install though: if the user adds a new disk to the VM later, we want to > be able to ask libosinfo about what devices the installed OS supports, so we > can set optimal defaults, like enabling virtio. > > There isn't any standard libvirt XML field to track this kind of info > though, so apps have to invent their own schema. nova and rhev do it > indirectly AFAICT. gnome-boxes does it directly with XML like this: > > <metadata> > <boxes:gnome-boxes xmlns:boxes="https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes"> > <os-id>http://fedoraproject.org/fedora/28</os-id> > .... > </boxes:gnome-boxes> > </metadata> > > I want to add something similar to virt-manager but it seems a shame to > invent our own private schema for something that most non-trivial virt apps > will want to know about. I was thinking a schema we could document with > libosinfo, something like > > <metadata> > <libosinfo > xmlns:libosinfo="http://libosinfo.org/xmlns/libvirt/domain/1.0"... > <os-id>http://fedoraproject.org/fedora/28</os-id> > </libosinfo> > </metadata> Yes, I would like to see this standardized under <matadata>.

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