[Libvir] Capabilities XML format
Hey,
Just a few brief comments after using it:
- <os_type>xen<os_type> is equivalent to
<os><type>linux</type></os>,
which is pretty confusing. Sounds to me like we should deprecate
the latter and move to "xen" everywhere for this.
- We have <host><arch>x86_64</arch></host> and
<guest><arch name="x86_64"/></guest>. I can see why we did
that,
but it seems odd to me to have different syntaxes for <arch>
depending on its context.
- I'm not sure how interesting the stuff in <guest><arch> is ... how
were we envisaging these bits being used?
- It's a pain to have to parse XML to discover whether e.g. you can
run a 64 bit guest. I'd much prefer to see the kind of API I'm
using here:
http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/code/test-caps.py
e.g.
caps = cnx.getCapabilities()
supports_x86_64 = False
for guest in caps.guests:
if guest.arch == "x86_64":
supports_x86_64 = True
Cheers,
Mark.