[adding Richard Jones, as he is more familiar with OS inspection] On 01/12/2011 03:29 PM, Matthias Bolte wrote:
One thing I wonder about is, where to get the list of possible values for the guest OS type and variation from? Do we use what virt-install/virt-manager currently use and map that onto the fixed guest OS types (and variations) that VMware and VirtualBox understand in the ESX/VMware and VirtualBox driver? Or do we expose the list of possible values in driver capabilities? Or ...
I imagine it should either be via some sort of .xml file (similar to libvirt's cpu_map.xml used for determining valid cpu models), or via linking in a common shared library that can share the work among multiple clients. IIRC, there is work under way to provide a library to standardize on detection and description of various operating systems installed in a guest, but I cannot seem to quickly find a reference to such a library at the moment. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org