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

[John Levon]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:55:57PM +0100, John Levon wrote:

> > If we accept we want to use virt-convert to generate libvirt XML, then
> > we need to require a hypervisor connection URI for this conversion so
> > we can fetch the capabilities data and fill in the deployment specific
> > bits.  And the resulting libvirt XML generated will be specific to the
> > machine it was generated on (or another with equivalent setup). 
> 
> Why is this an improvement over specifying stuff on the command line
> (like --arch) ?

I take that back, whilst certainly the capabilities stuff is irrelevant
today for Xen (based on what I get back on Solaris, anyway), I can see
that it will matter in the future.

So yes, we need a --connect option. It would typically default to none
except when needed, and then we use the default connection.

regards
john