[libvirt] [PATCH] Introduce virt-console
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Thu Jan 15 13:44:21 UTC 2009
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:45:50PM +0000, John Levon wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:28:37PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>
> > > +libexec_PROGRAMS = virt-console
> >
> > This can just be bin_PROGRAMS - not need to hide it outside of
> > /usr/bin - its fine to let users just run virt-console directly
> > if they wish
>
> Solaris policy is not to introduce plumbing into the user's PATH.
> virt-console is undocumented and there is no advantage to running it
> directly. If it were in PATH we would have to document it, and we have
> no intention of doing that...
This is the same as the Fedora policy too. If users aren't meant to
use virt-console directly then it should be in libexec as you say.
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones
virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a
live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests.
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v
More information about the libvir-list
mailing list