On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:48:26PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:27:42PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
One thing which is very apparent is that sys admins using libvirt / virsh have a great deal of difficulty understanding "where the configuration files have gone" and how to edit them.
.py files and the like were supposed to be human editable. I'm not convinced that libvirt XML is (heck, I certainly can't remember it).
Isn't the *right* solution to this problem to finally add property set/get interface for the things people actually want to modify, like boot flags?
Do you mean things like the current 'virsh attach-device' / 'virsh detach-device' interface? I'm responding here to a need that sysadmins feel they have -- to edit the configuration file (even if it's XML). Witness an endless series of questions on this subject on the #virt channel yesterday. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v