Thanks Andy, I was afraid that might be case ;) I'll check out the examples and see what I can come up with. - Chris
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Cathrow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 3:29 PM To: Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare) Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Users] ovirt VM custom properties ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Brown (GE Healthcare)" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 4:16:35 PM > Subject: [Users] ovirt VM custom properties > > > > > > In an effort to work around the mouse issues with spice consoles and > certain guests I had an idea for the time being. > > My thought process is to leverage custom properties to enable > usb-tablet support on said guests. > > --> ( > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3. > 0/html/Administration_Guide/VDSM_Hooks.html > ) > > > > I perused the available documentation and it appears that these custom > properties are ultimately fed into the generated libvirt domain xml. > > Thus sifting through --> > http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsInput we can pass in: > > <devices> > > <input type='tablet' bus='usb'/ id='input0'> > > </devices> > > > > The issue I am hung up on is that since this contains multi-level > elements can this even be specified as a custom property? The custom property wouldn't contain the XML it would contain data you want to pass to a hook script eg. addTablet=true, then it's down to your hook script to add the appropriate element to the device node in the libvirt xml. There's a number of good examples in the vdsm git repo. > > If so can one of the ovirt developers provide an example on how to go > about it? > > > > - Chris > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
