[libvirt] [virt-tools-list] [PATCH virt-manager v4] Add inspection to virt-manager

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:46:49AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Maybe we can cache the png data per detected OS value rather than per
> VM? Not sure if that collides with licensing issues, but would likely
> mean storing less data on disk.

You can't do that without getting into trademark issues.  The icon
that is displayed must have come from precisely the same guest.

The icons are not large anyhow.

One thing I meant to ask about Dan's proposal:

> >  $HOME/.local/libvirt/$CONN_URI/$DOMAIN_UUID/screenshot.png
> >  $HOME/.local/libvirt/$CONN_URI/$DOMAIN_UUID/icon.png
> >  $HOME/.local/libvirt/$CONN_URI/$DOMAIN_UUID/osinfo.json

Do we need the connection URI?  Isn't the dom UUID unique enough?

Rich.

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