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

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Tue Jul 1 16:45:02 UTC 2008


John Levon wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 12:05:08PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
>>> Will the sniffing work for anything but vmware files? I rather it be 
>>> explicit in all cases unless we can infer them all.
>> Yes, there is magic header that lets you detect pretty much all types
>> of disk image file - see the 'qemu-img' command. 
> 
> The disk stuff is OK, but the config file is maybe a little harder.
> vmware is easy, as is libvirt. Old-style .py files is even possible,
> probably.
> 
> When is this stuff hitting a repo? I'm particularly interested in the
> libvirt-domain style output and making the necessary changes as I
> describe above.
> 
> regards
> john
> 

I just committed the posted code as is (virt-unpack).

http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virtinst--devel?cs=7e907d31aaa6

Also, if we move virt-unpack to virt-convert we will want to combine the
also recently committed virt-pack into this as well.

Thanks,
Cole






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