[et-mgmt-tools] [PATCH] virtinst - virt-convert vmware output

[John Levon]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:19:57PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:

> >      @staticmethod
> >      def identify_file(input_file):
> >          """
> >          Return True if the given file is of this format.
> >          """
> > -        raise NotImplementedError
> > +        try:
> > +            image = ImageParser.parse_file(input_file)
> > +        except ImageParser.ParserException, msg:
> > +            return False
> 
> Please log the failure here.

Actually, I think this is right - we try multiple identify_file()
routines until we find a sucessful one.

Perhaps this code could split out "I know this is a virt-image file"
from "I failed to parse this virt-image file", but I'm not sure it's
worth it.

regards
john