Re: [libvirt] [virt-tools-list] Proposal: A place to store metadata about guests
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 02:22:00PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com>
wrote> >> > - Store data about available installer ISOs, guests which are
> >> > archived and not known to libvirt.
[...]
> The metadata you mean? Yes, thats going to be in osinfo. I intend to
> write a minor that extracts just volume, system and publisher IDs and
> a boolean indicating if the ISO is bootable but all that doesn't need
> to use libosinfo (though there will be some minor duplication of
> code).
I think we're talking at crossed purposes about the feature I
mentioned above.
I mean that if I have a directory full of ISO files, then it should be
possible to make available some metadata about those files. I'm
considering an ISO to be a special sort of guest that hasn't been
installed yet. libvirt (nor libosinfo for that matter) doesn't
currently know anything about directories full of ISOs. Nor about
guest templates.
Yeah I think while you were talking of keeping a common metadata
table/db while I was talking about tracking of all ISOs that user have
so any app/lib can just make a simple query to get the list.
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Regards,
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124