[et-mgmt-tools] [PATCH] virt-manager: Use avahi to poll for local servers

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:47:43AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > 
> > This is an example of the listing I'm referring to
> > 
> > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/avahify-your-app.html
> > 
> > Daniel
> 
> Right, it's just the 'name' data returned by the avahi polling.
> 
> Part of the issue using this though is that if the machine
> doesn't have a useful hostname (ex. something like localhost)
> you'll see entries like 'Virtual Host localhost #3'. We could
> probably have a column for advertised name and column for IP
> address and that would provide about as much identifying data
> as we can manage.

Yes, that is an issue - but its something that should be solved on the 
hosts issuing the advertisement. In /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf you
can actually customize the advertised name to whatever you like in the
scenario where you don't have  a sensible hostname.

Daniel
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