[libvirt] [PATCH 2/9] Extend <disk> element with controller information

[Matthias Bolte]

2009/9/24 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>:
>
> Outside the scope of your patches, I think it would be
> worth adding a 'name' attribute to all devices in the
> libvirt XML as a standardized unique identifier. We
> already have to keep track of a 'name' internally for
> NIC hotplug with QEMU, and with QEMU's qdev work we're
> going to end up having to track a 'name' for pretty much
> all devices. Thus we might as well expose it in the XML
>

Would this device name be read-only, or would it be editable/writable
by the user (e.g. through virsh edit)? If it should be read-only, I
see no problem supporting device names in the ESX driver. But If it
should be editable/writable it may be a problem to implement this for
the ESX driver, as I'm currently not aware of any sensible way to
store such an custom device name in a persistent manner on an ESX
server.

Matthias