On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:05:24PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:55:28AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 04:50:28PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > > This adds an icon to each Operating System section in the > > > Details->Overview pane. If inspection completes while a guest's > > > Details window is open, then the icon updates itself(!) > > > > > > Screenshots: > > > > > > http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/vmm-with-logo.png > > > http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/vmm-with-logo-2.png > > > > > > The icons are taken from either Wikipedia or the upstream project and > > > resized to 32 px width by myself. You may be wondering about the > > > legality of including these trademarked icons in Fedora packages, and > > > I was too. I asked Fedora Legal for a verdict with no reply yet: > > > > > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-April/001604.html > > > > It seems pretty discouraging > > > > "The complete answer here is not simple, but I can give you a simple one: > > > > * Don't do it. It would not be acceptable for Fedora. Use the word marks > > instead. > > > > Let me know if that is not sufficient and you want the more complete > > answer." > > > > > > Could we side-step the entire issue, by actually using libguestfs to > > extract an icon file from the guest OS image. Most OS installs include > > some kind of theme with icons/graphics in their default install set. > > It won't work 100% of the time, but perhaps it'd work often enough to > > be viable. > > As an example, Fedora includes /etc/favicon.png which is apparently > intended to be an admin customization point[1]. It'd be kinda neat to pull > this out & display it, so virt-manager shows whatever the guest admin > has assigned for that guest. > > Daniel > > [1] http://cgwalters.livejournal.com/19030.html
Yes - I was alerted to this already, and it too is a very good idea. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
