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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] XCP: python SR plugin questions
On 19 May 2010, at 10:07, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote: > hi, > > thanks for quick reply. > >> Hi there, >> >> On 19 May 2010, at 03:35, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote: >> >>> hi, >>> >>> i'm writing a python sr plugin for our product and have a few questions. >>> >>> - our product has 32-bit id, not uuid, for each volumes, which i want to map >>> to xcp's vdi. i generate name-based uuid from the 32-bit id in sr.scan and >>> vdi.create. is this a reasonable approach? >>> >> >> You can use the 'location' field in the VDI to contain your 32 bit id - then >> the uuid is irrelevant. I'd like to move more of the storage backends in >> this direction - currently I believe only the ISO SR does it this way. > > ok. in that case, xapi generates random uuids for me, right? > Actually the backends are responsible for creating the uuid. >> >>> - how can i get name-label specified by "xe vdi-create" in my vdi.create? >>> i want to pass it to our product. >>> >> >> Unfortunately this isn't possible at the moment. What you could do is pick >> the name up on a subsequent scan. This is ugly, I know, and might not even >> work if you need the name at VDI create time, but it's all we've got at the >> moment. This is on my list of things to fix about the SMAPI. > > sad to hear. :( > > our product needs a unique and preferably human readable name for > the VDI at create time. do you have any suggestion? > probably i have to use uuid generated by xapi? > Unfortunately there's no alternative at the moment :-( > YAMAMOTO Takashi > >> >>> if you are intersted, the "our product" is found at >>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vastsky/ >>> >>> YAMAMOTO Takashi >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Xen-devel mailing list >>> Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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