[Libvir] Persistent Configurations?

[Karel Zak]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 16:12 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:33:24PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > 
> > > Yeah my first reaction was to provide XML based configuration files
> > >that libvir would be able to understand, but I really think the 
> > >configurations
> > >may come from very varied sources possibly databases. That's why I would
> > >rather have the library agnostic when it comes to what a configuration
> > >may look like.
> > > 
> > >
> > I'll have to think about this one.  My biggest fear is that if there are 
> > a bunch of management tools capable of creating domains you'll end up 
> > with a bunch of different places storing configs.
> 
>   I expect my QA engineers and the developpers to store their configs in
> different places on the test cluster :-) you really expect people to
> use a unified storage ? I didn't expect it myself.

 There should be (at least) suggested and by distributions supported way
how to share domain configurations between more tools. I think we can
support both -- unified storage (/etc/something) and API that allows to
use customized storages (e.g. databases).

	Karel

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Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com>