[virt-tools-list] Question about the Gsettings and dconf and Design document.

[Cole Robinson]

On 11/16/2015 02:17 PM, Avaneendra Alugupalli wrote:
> hi
>  I am trying to understand the code for virt-manager and found that during the
> config object create, gets the connections / uris using the Gsettings API. and
> these are the entries in dconf database.
> 
> forchild inself._settings.list_children():
> childschema =self._root +"."+child
> self._settingsmap[child] =Gio.Settings.new(childschema)
> 
> 
> returns connections/uris as "qemu:///system" and "lxc:///". From the 
> 
> I can see that data
> <https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/tree/master/data>/org.virt-manager.virt-manager.gschema.xml
> makes 
> default entry for these fields. How ever am unable to track who is updating 
> the connections/uris to "qemu:///system" and "lxc:///" strings.

The functions that add/remove/list the URIs in config.py are add_conn,
remove_conn, list_conn_uris respectively. They are called from engine.py

> Also is there any architecture/ design document to understand the code at very
> higher
> level?.

No unfortunately :/

- Cole