Re: [libvirt] [virt-tools-list] Proposal: A place to store metadata about guests
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 01:04:07PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I think we need a place to store general metadata about guests.
>
> Here are some uses:
>
> - Store data about available installer ISOs, guests which are
> archived and not known to libvirt.
We will need this for our desktop integration plans but the
understanding is that we depend on Tracker[1] for this. Tracker will
need to be hacked to be able to differentiate between installer and
non-installer ISOs though but thats pretty much doable. I just wonder
if that solution also works for you?
[...]
Where was it planned?
Tracker seems to be a desktop search engine.
Can we make the data available to Tracker without requiring it?
(Seems one has to write a "tracker miner" to do this)
Do we know that Tracker will stay around long-term (unlike Beagle etc)?
Is it available without requiring GNOME and other heavyweight deps
(eg. servers, KDE)?
Rich.
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