On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 04:10:52PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > > To connect to the guest with ID 7 running under QEMU > > > > virt-viewer --connect qemu:///system 7 > > Can we *please* think about a standardized environment variable to set > the default for --connect and which all tools are looking at? Yes, this would be useful. > virsh has VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI for that. > > I'd like to have *one* variable used by *all* libvirt-based tools, > virt-viewer, virt-manager, virsh, ... We could simply reuse the virsh > variable, or we could pick some other name without virsh in there, > preferable also shorter and thus easier to remember. VIRT_URI maybe? We should probably apply the change to libvirt, so that if 'NULL' is used for the connect URI for virConnectOpen, and VIRT_CONNECT_URI is set, then NULL gets substituted with the value of the env variable.

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 04:10:52PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >> To connect to the guest with ID 7 running under QEMU >> >> virt-viewer --connect qemu:///system 7 > Can we *please* think about a standardized environment variable to set > the default for --connect and which all tools are looking at? Yes, this would be useful. > virsh has VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI for that. > > I'd like to have *one* variable used by *all* libvirt-based tools, > virt-viewer, virt-manager, virsh, ... We could simply reuse the virsh > variable, or we could pick some other name without virsh in there, > preferable also shorter and thus easier to remember. VIRT_URI maybe? We should probably apply the change to libvirt, so that if 'NULL' is used for the connect URI for virConnectOpen, and VIRT_CONNECT_URI is set, then NULL gets substituted with the value of the env variable.