On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:45:30PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:54:11AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:47:34PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote: > > > 2011/1/13 Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com>: > > > > It's probably impossible from the ESX driver itself, but you could run > > > > virt-inspector on the domain and translate the result into a suitable > > > > guestOS string. virt-inspector supports a large proportion of the > > > > OSes listed. > > > > > > That won't work in general, as you want to set the guest OS type in > > > the VMX config before you install the guest OS. > > > > So you're stuck with modelling it in the libvirt XML somehow. > > > > I will just add that a current RFE is to make virt-inspector work on > > install CDs. The idea is in virt-manager that we have it > > automatically fill in the OS hints based on the ISO you try to use. > > What we're trying todo with libosinfo is to kind of reverse the > current approach, so we don't need any probing at all. The libosinfo > database will actually contain metadata about where the install media > can be obtained (admin specified local ISO/URL paths, and/or some > default internet URL install paths, etc). Currently virt-manager asks > the user to fill in a ISO path or URL for their OS, and then probes > it to find out what type of OS. With libosinfo integrated, the user > would simply be shown a list of OS, and pick one off the list. Then > virt-manager would query libosinfo to find out the URL/ISO path and > all the hardware support metadata associated with it without needing > to probe. [...]
I agree this is a better approach. It's what we did with virt-ctrl back in the day :-) 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 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
