On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 05:25:57PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
I actually started at one point on a graphical libvirt XML editor, although I fairly quickly realised it would be a Sisyphean task because the format isn't tremendously well defined[1] and it keeps changing. Also because there's a lot of overlap between virt-install and (potential) virt-config-editor.
I do genuinely think that having 'virsh edit' is better than the current situation. Currently the advice that everyone gives is to do:
virsh dumpxml foo > foo.xml vi foo.xml virsh define foo.xml
which is of course precisely the same as what 'virsh edit' does :-)
Yes, I think this command is worthwhile adding. We should also try to address the problem that John raises too, but I see that as a parallel task - and a far more involved piece of work to undertake :-)
Right, and it'll probably never happen if we band-aid over the problem. Ah well. john