[libvirt] Google Summer of Code 2013 ideas wiki open

[harryxiyou]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Osier Yang <jyang at redhat.com> wrote:
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>
> Not sure if you planned to request separate projects for these, but I don't
> think it's deserved for separate projects. They can be just one project,
> as the work need to do for them is similar.

Sure, they are a whole project for GSOC 2013 but separate ones.

>
> And not restricted to storage stuffs,  if renaming API makes sense for
> storage
> volume, it makes sense for all other objects too, e.g.
> domain/network/interface/
> nwfilter/secret/pool.
>
> What I'm thinking about is, the renaming is easy to implement for inactive
> objects, but for active ones, it's hard, even not possible, such as for a
> active domain, the domain name is refered by various places, if you change
> that, it will produce a big mess.
>

Maybe i will have a try for all of them ;-)

>
>
>> 4, Move volume from one pool to another. I will develop 'virsh vol-move
>> xxx'
>> option for virsh tool.
>
>
> Not sure it's deserved, the existing command create-vol-as/vol-clone can
> actually copy the volume from another pool. And after that, you can just
> remove the original volume. Perhaps having a virsh command to wrapper
> the the two APIs together is enough.
>

Maybe we should have this virsh command to move volume from one pool
to another one directly.


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Thanks
Harry Wei