[et-mgmt-tools] Bogus heuristics in virt-manager

Soren Hansen soren at ubuntu.com
Wed Jan 9 15:24:32 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:16:42PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > This is because virt-manager's code is full of (os.getuid() == 0)
> > checks, which in my case are completely wrong.
> Yep, these checks are all targetted for removal. Basically they fall
> into a couple of categories:
> 
>  - Checking OS state /proc/xen, /sysfs /dev/kvm to see what HV
>    capabilities/properties you can use. These are targetted to
>    replacement with the virConnectGetCapabilities() APIs
> 
>  - Creating/managing storage. These are targetted for replacement
>    with the forthcoming storage management APIs
> 
>  - Enumerating network devices. TBD.


Sounds fantastic. Is this in mercurial somewhere?

Is there a roadmap for the various tools anywhere?

-- 
Soren Hansen
Ubuntu Server Team
http://www.ubuntu.com/
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