On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 15:40 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
Yes, you'd be trying to merge overlapping namespaces, but some ideas on that front:
- If you simply prevent someone defining a VM using the same name as an existing VM defined via another driver, that gets you 90% there
Which we're unable to prevent.
I was talking about the trivial case - prevent a user from creating a conflict using the default connection. That gets us the right thing in at least 90% of use cases IMHO.
We are fundamentally dealing with different namespaces with both 'name' and 'id' values - any attempt to merge them is doomed to failure.
Yes, they are fundamentally different namespaces. But the fact that they are fundamentally different namespaces is nothing but a hinderance to users, and fudging an aggregation of these fundamentally different namespaces should be both possible and beneficial to most users. Cheers, Mark.