Re: [Libguestfs] packaging virtio-win
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 05:56:48PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
- There are many consumers of the iso layout as it is right now. Any
changes in the short to medium term need to be entirely additive so
we can get the new layout right without breaking every consumer. So
keep the existing iso layout of $drivername/$weird-os/$arch, but
_add_ the $arch/$standard-os/* layout, and avoid duplicates by
hardlinking identical files (the scripts on github already have code
that handles the last bit).
May also be worth asking who the current consumers are.
Virt-v2v is one of them.
Are there others? (GNOME Boxes?)
Virt-v2v uses a very simple scheme where it looks at each path element
for magic strings (eg. "/win2003/" or "/x86/") and from that it works
out what Windows OS + arch the drivers in that directory are intended
for. It's flexible enough that we can easily change it, but only if
we're told what the new convention will be.
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/v2v/windows.ml#L132-...
Rich.
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