On 17/07/09 11:21, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
IMHO doing this is a big mistake. This is what we did for virt-install and hugely regret it. Things just don't fall into a nice hierarchy. We are now looking at doing a flat list of distros + tagging/categorization relationships to be defined.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-June/msg00018.html
Thanks, Dan. What problems did you hit? I'm inclined to think I might get away with it for virt-v2v because we also have so much other additional info about the system. So far, 'redhat' pretty much means it uses rpm rather than anything else. Are you actually doing OS detection, or is this just for filling in distro-specific defaults? What sort of data do you have on individual distros? Matt -- Matthew Booth, RHCA, RHCSS Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team M: +44 (0)7977 267231 GPG ID: D33C3490 GPG FPR: 3733 612D 2D05 5458 8A8A 1600 3441 EA19 D33C 3490