[et-mgmt-tools] [PATCH] convert vmware machines to virt-image xml format

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:48:47AM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:14:55PM -0700, David Lutterkort wrote:
> 
> > > > --- virtinst--devel.orig/virt-unpack	1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
> > > > +++ virtinst--devel/virt-unpack	2008-06-26 10:30:45.000000000 -0400
> > > 
> > > Why isn't this called virt-convert? I don't see any actually "unpacking"
> > > going on here.
> >  
> > Calling it virt-pack is more a historical accident. I think renaming it
> > to virt-convert makes sense. It'll require some small changes in the
> > command line switches though, so you cna say from what format and to
> > what format you want to convert.
> 
> Indeed. I have some comments on that too. What I'd like to see is
> something like the logic below. I may even be sending patches to do
> this, if I can get some consensus.
> 
> virt-convert [-i ifmt] -o ofmt input [output]

[snip rest of example]


I think this makes alot of sense - it is definitely important to have the 
command line syntax support multiple formats, even if we've only got an
impl for vmware so far.

Daniel
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