On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:55:28AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > 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.
That's a pretty good idea actually. I'll see what we can do. > With libosinfo, we can associate arbitrary metadata with operating > system definitions. So we could include a URI for an icon file in > the libosinfo databases for each OS, and then virt-manager could > simply download icons on the fly. Ditto, downloading the icons would avoid this. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
