Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Support transient attribute on vmware disks
On 12/27/2013 02:40 PM, Wout Mertens wrote:
OK… So what is the next step?
[please don't top-post on technical lists]
I just noticed the <metadata> node
(http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsMetadata), could that be used for this?
E.g.
<metadata>
<vpx:vmxpath xmlns:vpx=“http://libvirt.org/vmware/“>[foo]
bar/bar.vmx</vpx:vmxpath>
</metadata>
No. That would tie your solution to something that is opaque to libvirt.
Otherwise it seems to me that this would be part of the general section, perhaps simply a
“path” node?
Not quite a path node. I was thinking more like:
<domain type='kvm'>
<name>foo</name>
<pool name='mypool'/>
...
where the new <pool> element says that anything that the 'foo' domain
does that requires creation of new files will do so within the already
existing <pool> object with the name 'mypool'. We can also support
<pool uuid='...'> (or both name and uuid at once). If the <pool>
element is missing, that's when the domain uses defaults and/or refuses
to do tasks where we don't know where to stick the files.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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