[et-mgmt-tools] RFC On importing raw images

David Lutterkort lutter at redhat.com
Thu Oct 16 17:10:17 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 20:55 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > - virt-image: no go for libvirt xml, but could be expanded
> >   to build image xml, and probably the most consistent place
> >   to do it.
> 
> Yeah, I don't think its applicable for virt-image. virt-image
> is really focused on having all the domain metadata upfront 
> and not prompting the user for it.

Wouldn't that be a job for virt-convert ? If the images are so raw that
they have _no_ metadata whatsoever, I am not sure that a tool would be
any better than a doc describing how to craft image.xml.

BTW, virt-image has a --print option which will print the libvirt.xml,
so there's at least a way to do image.xml -> libvirt.xml

David





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