[libvirt] PATCH: 1/5: Public API for domain XML conversions

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 05:24:33PM +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:35:26PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > This provides the 2 public APIs needed for  conversion of domain XML
> > to/from native configuration formats. It also hooks up the internal
> > driver infrastructure, and binds to virsh
> 
> 
> [...]
> > +/*
> > + * "domxml-from-native" command
> > + */
> > +static const vshCmdInfo info_domxmlfromnative[] = {
> > +    {"help", gettext_noop("Import native config as domain XML")},
> > +    {"desc", gettext_noop("Import native guest configuration format to domain XML format.")},
> > +    {NULL, NULL}
> > +};
> 
>   I wouldn't really say it's an import, at best it's an export to a new
> format, import may be misunderstood as possibly defining a resulting
> domain.
> 
> 
> > +/*
> > + * "domxml-to-native" command
> > + */
> > +static const vshCmdInfo info_domxmltonative[] = {
> > +    {"help", gettext_noop("Export domain XML as native config")},
> > +    {"desc", gettext_noop("Export domain XML config to a native guest configuration format.")},
> > +    {NULL, NULL}
> > +};
> 
>   Hum, maybe we should just use "Convert" instead of import or export.

This is left over from a earlier version. I was calling the APIs and
virsh commands   domxml-import and domxml-export, but i decided this
was confusing, to changed but forgot the help text.  Convert is a better
word for this

Daniel
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