[et-mgmt-tools] [RFC] virtinst: build libvirt storage xml

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Fri Jul 25 16:41:31 UTC 2008


Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> No, that's exactly why we shouldn't take a URI. openAuth requires user
>>> interaction, so that's unavoidably application specific. We just need
>>> a helper in virtinst/cli.py for the command line tools to use to create
>>> their connection object, and virt-manager already knows how to do
>>> authentication. So everything should just pass ina connection object
>>> instead of URI.
>>>
>>> Daniel
>> Ahh okay, that makes sense. I'll remove the option to pass a URI then,
>> since we really shouldn't even encourage passing a URI and expecting
>> the library to open it.
> 
> Just don't remove it from the existing Guest modules, because Koan is
> relying on this API to remain stable & since Koan is local only it
> doesn't have to worry about auth.
> 
> Daniel

Right understandably we need to maintain the existing expected behavior.

- Cole




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