[et-mgmt-tools] [PATCH] virt-manager: show serial/parallel devices

[Cole Robinson]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:51:49AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> The attached patch teaches virt-manager how to parse VM
>> character devices, showing them in the details section.
>> This patch also implements removing these devices.
>>
>> There are a couple quirks though:
>>
>> 1) All the possible character device xml properties
>>    aren't accounted for. This only parses target port,
>>    device type, and source path. I figure this covers
>>    the common cases, and is easily expandable.
>>
>> 2) Explicit entries are only set for serial and parallel
>>    devices, not console devices. Since by default, console
>>    is really just a duplicate of the first serial device,
>>    we try to detect this and label said serial device as
>>    appropriately (seen in the second screen shot).
>>    This simplifies things a good deal, and makes deleting
>>    easier, since in order to remove the console or 
>>    first serial device, both xml blocks need to be removed
>>    simultaneously (not sure if this is a libvirt bug or not).
> 
> I think that is probably a bug. Can you re-test with the latest
> CVS snapshot of libvirt where I've changed the handling a little
> bit. Basically you should never need to add or remove a 'console'
> device explicitly. Either it is there permanently (eg, Xen PV
> always has a console), or it is automatically added/removed when
> the first serial device is added or removed. 
> 
> 
 
Cool, things seem to work with current upstream.

As far as the virt-manager code though, do you think it's a reasonable
approach (don't have an explicit console entry)?

Thanks,
Cole