[virt-tools-list] [PATCH virt-manager v4] Add inspection to virt-manager

[Eric Blake]

On 07/19/2011 08:47 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:46:49AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> Maybe we can cache the png data per detected OS value rather than per
>> VM? Not sure if that collides with licensing issues, but would likely
>> mean storing less data on disk.
>
> You can't do that without getting into trademark issues.  The icon
> that is displayed must have come from precisely the same guest.
>
> The icons are not large anyhow.
>
> One thing I meant to ask about Dan's proposal:
>
>>>   $HOME/.local/libvirt/$CONN_URI/$DOMAIN_UUID/screenshot.png
>>>   $HOME/.local/libvirt/$CONN_URI/$DOMAIN_UUID/icon.png
>>>   $HOME/.local/libvirt/$CONN_URI/$DOMAIN_UUID/osinfo.json
>
> Do we need the connection URI?  Isn't the dom UUID unique enough?

Technically, a UUID should be unique enough.  But right now, libvirt 
does not enforce cross-connection uniqueness, and it is possible to 
reuse a uuid value across hypervisors (even though such reuse violates 
the definition of uuid), so using $CONN_URI protects us from that 
potential for reuse.  Besides, we already use $CONN_URI in the paths of 
other files, such as per-domain logs (for example, 
/var/log/libvirt/$CONN_URI/$DOMAIN_NAME.log), so it's a reasonable 
proposal to keep that naming hierarchy elsewhere.

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