[libvirt] [PATCH 1/3] xml: output memory unit for clarity

Matthias Bolte matthias.bolte at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 23 07:56:50 UTC 2012


2012/2/23 Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>:
> Make it obvious to 'dumpxml' readers what unit we are using,
> since our default of KiB (1024) differs from qemu's default of MiB.

> diff --git a/tests/xml2vmxdata/xml2vmx-svga.xml b/tests/xml2vmxdata/xml2vmx-svga.xml
> index b7db4c8..9f93ef9 100644
> --- a/tests/xml2vmxdata/xml2vmx-svga.xml
> +++ b/tests/xml2vmxdata/xml2vmx-svga.xml
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  <domain type='vmware'>
>   <name>minimal</name>
>   <uuid>564d9bef-acd9-b4e0-c8f0-aea8b9103515</uuid>
> -  <memory>4096</memory>
> +  <memory units='KiB'>4096</memory>
>   <os>
>     <type>hvm</type>
>   </os>

Good idea, but why did you decide to name the attribute "units"
(plural) instead of "unit"? As a value can only have one unit the
attribute name "units" is misleading.

-- 
Matthias Bolte
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