On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:06:13AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 06/29/2011 09:00 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 05:55:11PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> >> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> This is the generic family this OS belongs to, for example Linux, Windows, >> >> Solaris, UNIX etc. >> >> >> @@ -35,6 +38,7 @@ >> >> <short-id>openbsd4</short-id> >> >> <name>OpenBSD 4</name> >> >> <version>4.9</version> >> >> + <family>UNIX</family> >> >> <vendor>OpenBSD Project</vendor> >> >> >> >> <devices> >> > >> > Perhaps we should let BSD have a family of 'BSD' ?
Makes sense but currently my objective is mainly to satisfy virtinst's needs. I can Add a FIXME cmment there for now though. >> And if we do that, would we classify MacOS as BSD? >> >> Also, is MirBSD in the list of known OS yet? I have successfully >> installed that BSD flavor in a VM in the past. > > Eric's point above is a good one. What is "Family"? It sounds like > it is the historical derivation of the OS, but that's not very useful > except to Unix history geeks. I am not adding this information just for the fun of it. Each patch to libosinfo from me you see is something that virtinst already uses. > How about what *kernel* does this run - ie. Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, > Darwin(?), ... That would actually be a useful thing to know because > it affects whether virtio drivers are available, You don't want to derive that information from this attribute as libosinfo provides APIs to find that information independently. > whether we can run > crash or virt-dmesg on it, and whether the hypervisor has been tested > against it. Didn't get the crash part but the latter is also an information you collect using libosinfo APIs, i-e don't guess/derive from 'family' or 'kernel'. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
