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Re: [Xen-devel] XCP: python SR plugin questions
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?
>
>> - 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?
YAMAMOTO Takashi
>
>> if you are intersted, the "our product" is found at
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vastsky/
>>
>> YAMAMOTO Takashi
>>
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