[et-mgmt-tools] [PATCH] virtinst: add storage builders for logical pools and volumes

[Cole Robinson]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:21:15PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> The attached patch adds virtinst support for building
>> logical pools and volumes. Sort of. This will allow
>> creating new volumes, but not creating pools (aka
>> volume groups) from a specified set of physical disks.
>> I believe libvirt supports this, but I haven't tried it
>> yet.
> 
> Not a huge issue - using a pre-existing volume group is by
> far the most important use case here.
> 
>> However this does allow the user to point at an existing
>> lvm volume group and have it recognized as a storage pool
>> which will be by far the common case. The nice thing
>> about this is that it will all become immediately available
>> in the virt-manager UI (posted previously).
> 
> Looks good.
> 
>> One thing I've encountered with this though: does a volume's
>> target path have any significance upon creation? File volumes
>> just seem to create a file based on the passed 'name', not
>> target path. Disk volumes ignore both when creating. Logical
>> vols also only use the name, but try to validate the target
>> path after creation, which we shouldn't need passed (the result
>> should simply be vgpath + "/" + volname). So it seems like
>> target path has no real meaning when defining a volume. Am
>> I missing something?
> 
> That is correct - the target path for a volume is filled in
> according to the policy of the storage pool, often based off
> the name of the storage volume + the target path of the 
> storage pool
> 
> Daniel
> 

Okay, I've committed this.

http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virtinst--devel?cs=95dfaa9a29a6

Thanks,
Cole