[virt-tools-list] Devel: Newbie to virt-manager contribution

[Cole Robinson]

On 09/04/2015 01:11 AM, Abhijeet Kasurde wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I am new to Virt-manager development and looking for easyfix / low hanging
> fruit to get my hands dirty.
> 

Great to hear! Welcome :)

> Can anyone point me to such bugs along with priority so that I can get started?
> 
> P.S. I have seen the bugzilla for virt-manager, but not sure where to start from.
> 

Yeah there isn't too much simple stuff in the bug tracker. It's on my list to
make an actual public list of easyfix type stuff but I never seem to get
around to it.

A good place to start is extending the virt-install/virt-xml command line to
support more libvirt XML properties. I posted a guide here:

http://blog.wikichoon.com/2014/03/extending-virt-xml-command-line.html

Some XML properties that I know off hand we don't support yet:

<features><kvm><hidden state='on'/>... , would be --features kvm_hidden=on
<features><gic version='2'/>..., would be --features gic_version=2
<on_lockfailure>FOO<..., would be --events on_lockfailure=FOO

But there's tons of other examples, you'll need to check the XML examples at
https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html and compare them against what
virt-install supports in virtinst/cli.py... but the blog post above covers that.

If you get a few of those under your belt and want to try something more
interesting I can come up with a few things at that point.

Thanks,
Cole