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

[John Levon]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:28:04PM -0400, Joey Boggs wrote:

> >+import virtinst.ImageParser as ImageParser
> >+from virtinst.cli import fail
> >
> >Surely this isn't right - this code is "library" code and shouldn't be
> >using fail() ? It should be re-raising the exception...
> 
> Not sure about this, all the other apps in virtinst use fail() now in 
> exceptions even virt-convert, or am I misunderstanding something?

I just grepped and didn't see that. The only fail() usages are in
virtinst/cli.py. That's right and proper: library code like that in
virtconv/ (or most of virtinst/) should raise exceptions to allow the
caller to decide the correct behaviour (if I'm a daemon, I'd better keep
running; a GUI, I'd better bring up a dialog box, etc.).

> >diff -r 58a909b4f71c virtconv/parsers/vmx.py
> >--- a/virtconv/parsers/vmx.py	Mon Sep 22 11:32:11 2008 -0400
> >+++ b/virtconv/parsers/vmx.py	Mon Sep 29 07:17:09 2008 -0400
> >+_VMX_IDE_TEMPLATE = """
> >+# IDE disk
> >+ide%(dev)s.present = "TRUE"
> >+ide%(dev)s.fileName = "%(disk_filename)s"
> >+ide%(dev)s.mode = "persistent"
> >+ide%(dev)s.startConnected = "TRUE"
> >+ide%(dev)s.writeThrough = "TRUE"
> >+"""
> >
> >Hmm, above we're importing virt-image as SCSI disks, but exporting as
> >IDE - can you clarify this?
> >  
> We can't export as scsi without qemu-img vmdk scsi support. It's in the 

What does this do? I had no idea that vmdk format was specific to either
SCSI or IDE - how does that work?

It's a fine restriction, but it seems inconsistent: why are we assuming
that virt-image import is using SCSI? Wouldn't a better default be IDE?

regards
john