Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/9] Extend <disk> element with controller information

2009/9/24 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt;: > > Outside the scope of your patches, I think it would be > worth adding a 'name' attribute to all devices in the > libvirt XML as a standardized unique identifier. We > already have to keep track of a 'name' internally for > NIC hotplug with QEMU, and with QEMU's qdev work we're > going to end up having to track a 'name' for pretty much > all devices. Thus we might as well expose it in the XML > Would this device name be read-only, or would it be editable/writable by the user (e.g. through virsh edit)? If it should be read-only, I see no problem supporting device names in the ESX driver. But If it should be editable/writable it may be a problem to implement this for the ESX driver, as I'm currently not aware of any sensible way to store such an custom device name in a persistent manner on an ESX server.