On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:54:07PM -0500, Arjun Roy wrote: > Hi all, > > Back in October I posted some thoughts on a library for dealing with OS > metadata > used by the various virt applications. > > As a refresher, here it is: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2009-October/msg00091.html > > After a few emails back and forth, I revised the proposed API to : > https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2009-October/msg00162.html > > I have no implemented the API, mostly as described in the second email, and > have > it hosted at the following location: > https://fedorahosted.org/libosinfo > > I feel that with a little integration work, this would be very useful for any > of > the virt management applications in use, and would like to hear any comments > on > the implementation. > > The implementation as is works on the test cases provided, and going forward > would need the following things: > > 1. Generate the actual backing data that virt applications use in the > appropriate > format > 2. Determine how best to integrate it with existing virt apps like virtinst > > The library right now is functionality complete in that all the methods > advertised work, > and there is a sample 'dummy' data file that the tests run against. However, > the required > plumbing work (actually installing the headers and *.so file to where it > needs to go) has > not been done yet, though that's easy to do when necessary. >
Great news Arjun. Dan I believe the need for this came up again last week in a conversation about cpu flags... --Hugh -- ======================================================== Hugh Brock, [email protected], +1-215-564-3232 Deltacloud API + Portal http://deltacloud.org Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org ======================================================== _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
