[Libvirt-cim] [PATCH] Add hypervisor version information to the Caption field of the VSMS

[Dan Smith]

KR> Fair enough.  =) You could add some kind of demarcation between
KR> items, but you'd have to ensure that demarcation won't potentially
KR> show up as part of a string.

KR> You could also do something like:  "Hypervisor:  QEMU 0.9.1"

My problem with that is that I believe the caption is intended to be
something displayed by a client to a user.  Either as a part of a
larger client-generated string, or as it is.  Doing something like the
above, or trying to make the values separated by a delimiter means
that the client is forced to parse it up to display it the way they
want.  For example, if they wanted to display the caption as:

  "Xen System: $CAPTION"

It might break some visual guidelines to have that read:

  "Xen System: Hypervisor: QEMU 0.9.1"

which is kinda awkward.

So, I dunno, it's not a very formal interface and thus shouldn't
really be parsed by the client as it could change.  But if we try to
strive for something that could reasonably be displayed to the user as
it is, that seems reasonable to me.

-- 
Dan Smith
IBM Linux Technology Center
Open Hypervisor Team
email: danms at us.ibm.com
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