On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 05:23:16PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
When starting a guest, give every device a unique alias. This will be used for the 'id' parameter in -device args in later patches. It can also be used to uniquely identify devices in the monitor
For old QEMU without -device, assign disk names based on QEMU's historical naming scheme.
* src/qemu/qemu_conf.c: Assign unique device aliases * src/qemu/qemu_driver.c: Remove obsolete qemudDiskDeviceName and use the device alias in eject & blockstats commands --- src/qemu/qemu_conf.c | 173 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 104 ++++++----------------------- 2 files changed, 195 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)
How would the user see the alias in practice ? They won't be dumped in the XML if I understand correctly so how to they get exposed ? ACK, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/