2009/9/24 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>:
Outside the scope of your patches, I think it would be worth adding a 'name' attribute to all devices in the libvirt XML as a standardized unique identifier. We already have to keep track of a 'name' internally for NIC hotplug with QEMU, and with QEMU's qdev work we're going to end up having to track a 'name' for pretty much all devices. Thus we might as well expose it in the XML
Would this device name be read-only, or would it be editable/writable by the user (e.g. through virsh edit)? If it should be read-only, I see no problem supporting device names in the ESX driver. But If it should be editable/writable it may be a problem to implement this for the ESX driver, as I'm currently not aware of any sensible way to store such an custom device name in a persistent manner on an ESX server. Matthias