Re: [libvirt] anyone implementing host device enumeration?

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 03:18:57PM -0400, David Lively wrote: > Hi - > > I'm about to start working on host device enumeration, along the > (HAL-ish) lines of what was discussed back in April: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-April/msg00005.html > > I know the xml details haven't been fully fleshed out, but there seems > to be agreement that it will be a fairly direct mapping from (a subset > of the) HAL info to the details that we need in the xml. Doubtless it > will take a while to figure out exactly what subset suffices (and, for > that matter, if everything needed is available via HAL ...), but I think > the work is well-defined for some of the obvious details (discussed in > the above thread) on which there's broad agreement. > > Is anyone working on such an implementation? No one that I'm aware of - so go for it. FYI, one complication has come up since my initial proposal. HAL is going away, to be replaced by DeviceKit :-( That said they will co-exist and HAL will be around for a while and they will both expose very similar properties for devices so it shouldn't too much trouble. I think we just need to be conservative when deciding how many of the HAL properties we need to add in libvirt. I'd go for a pretty minimal set at first.