Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 04:10:52PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Hi,
To connect to the guest with ID 7 running under QEMU
virt-viewer --connect qemu:///system 7 Can we *please* think about a standardized environment variable to set the default for --connect and which all tools are looking at?
Yes, this would be useful.
virsh has VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI for that.
I'd like to have *one* variable used by *all* libvirt-based tools, virt-viewer, virt-manager, virsh, ... We could simply reuse the virsh variable, or we could pick some other name without virsh in there, preferable also shorter and thus easier to remember. VIRT_URI maybe?
We should probably apply the change to libvirt, so that if 'NULL' is used for the connect URI for virConnectOpen, and VIRT_CONNECT_URI is set, then NULL gets substituted with the value of the env variable.
Very good idea. Rich. -- Emerging Technologies, Red Hat - http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/ Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 03798903