[libvirt] [PATCH v2] Allow 10 chars for domain IDs & 30 chars for names in virsh list

[Peter Krempa]

On 01/12/2012 01:19 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange"<berrange at redhat.com>
>
> Domain IDs are at least 16 bits for most hypervisors, theoretically
> event 32-bits.  3 characters is clearly too small an alignment.
> Increase alignment to 10 characters to allow 32-bit domain IDs to
> display cleanly. Commonly seen with LXC where domain IDs are the
> process IDs by default.  Also increase the 'name' field from 20
> to 30 characters to cope with longer guest names which are quite
> common
>
> In v2:
>
>   - Increase size to 10 chars
>   - Left align ID values
>   - Also increase name field to 30
>   - Increase number of '-' to compensate
>
> ---
I think that 10 characters is a lot of space wasted in most of cases :/.
What about calculating the alignment dynamicaly? I'm adding code to the 
list command, so I could add that as a part of my patch.


Peter