Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Allows for a <description> tag for domains
2009/9/30 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523639
feature request which makes sense to me, the simple patch attached
seems to be sufficient, one can define and have the description back
in the dump. Doesn't try to keep the location of the tag, it always
get serialized after <uuid>.
The only drawbacks I can think of are:
- others XML formats may require the same, but honnestly it's trivial
- machine generated description (for example if the history log of
a domain gets stored there) could grow a lot and I wonder if we
have a hard limit on the size when transmitting xml descriptions
Such a machine generated description would contradict the intention of
Rubin Simons for this description entry. IMHO this description entry
should be used for user-provided descriptions only. For any other
purpose (like a history log) another entry should be added.
Oh and I didn't found a good place to test the feature, i.e. no
test
seems to parse and reserialize XML it's always about conversions.
Daniel
ACK.
This will be easy to support in the ESX driver, because a virtual
machine has an free-format annotation field where this description can
be stored.
Matthias