[Libvirt-cim] [PATCH] Change installed namespace to root/virt

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Fri Nov 9 14:56:22 UTC 2007


On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:37:02AM -0800, Dan Smith wrote:
> DV>   In general root's home does not sound the proper place for
> DV> storing system data, is there really no way to put this somewhere
> DV> under /var instead ?
> 
> Okay, we're not *that* dumb :)
> 
> The namespace is a CIM concept used to separate providers, which must
> be "/root/something".  It's part of the URI used to make CIM queries.
> On a Pegasus box, this actually translates to
> $PEGASUS/repository/root/virt, where $PEGASUS is /var/lib/Pegasus (on
> most machines).

 I had an epidermic reaction, I didn't check further, my bad :-)
Still even in the XML space people always wonder if they can dereference 
the namespace name to get extra informatiosn, I bet I won't be the only
one confused by /root/...

Daniel

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