[et-mgmt-tools] [PATCH 09 of 11] Add OS variant options to virt-convert

[John Levon]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 01:30:42PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> > Add OS variant options to virt-convert.
> > 
> > And use them to set ACPI, APIC, clock, and USB tablet.
> 
> Again, I don't think libvirt domain XML should be handled by this tool
> precisely because of the issues you're attempting to address here.

What do you mean "again" ?

libvirt is only part of the problem: it's not the only virt format with
hypervisor specific settings. Even if you were to enforce the use of
virt-image, you've still got the same problems if we ever want true
mobility between other formats.

Even worse, the image XML is very lossy. Whilst I imagine that
virt-image will *typically* be used, enforcing an information-removing
step doesn't make much sense to me.

And finally, there is currently no way to generate image XML from a
domain config (AFAIK). So we want this for libvirt import anyway.

regards
john