On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:56:18AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 09:26:57AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
I also think we need to clarify the naming conventions, are numbers provided decimal, if yes then is an 0x hexadecimal version allowed too. I also see how a more high level description might be useful,
<hostdev type='usb'> <source vendor='Sennheiser'/> </hostdev>
or
<hostdev type='usb'> <source product='headset'/> </hostdev>
We should stick to ID numbers in the domain XML - allowing decimal or hex is nice.
For descriptive names 'Sennheiser' or 'headset', we should only provide that info in the device enumeration APIs
Well, I was thinking of this as a way to keep the XML file static over a range of potential hardware, potentially allowing some kind of migration in spite of a dependancy to a local hardware device. But that's probably not very realistic, and if turn out possible sometimes then that can be added later.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-April/msg00005.html
Management tools / admins can use this to map to the ID number from a human readable name if relevant.
Okay, that solves the problem at creation time, i remember this being discussed no problem. Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/