[Engine-devel] OS info wiki

[Itamar Heim]

On 06/03/2013 09:50 AM, Roy Golan wrote:
> On Sun 02 Jun 2013 10:15:27 PM IDT, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 06/02/2013 04:21 PM, Roy Golan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> A new feature page for OS info is out: http://www.ovirt.org/OS_info
>>>
>>> Please review.
>>>
>>> Roy
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>>
>> two questions:
>> 1. windows os product key - this is known to be a "must be
>> reconfigured by customer" to use, so vdc_options may be fine for it,
>> and if not, a prepared template under /etc for overriding this field
>> per relevant OS should come out of the box.
>>
> by design a customer can drop  an 10-product-keys.properties under
> /etc/ovirt-engine/conf/osinfo.conf.d/ and have there
> override the keys:
> os.windows7.productKey=xxx
> os.windows8.productKey=yyy

unlike the rest of the config file, here there are no defaults, so i'm 
suggesting you should place a .sample file for this in the appropriate 
/etc folder to help users

> ...
>> 2. I18N - is this supported today? how does it work with the search by
>> OS type? while at it - how does the search by os type works with this
>> new mechanism?
>>
> I'm not sure this is supported today. Anyhow the search is by the
> VmOsType member name so
> its actually the unique OS name and not the resource one
>   VMs: os = rhel6x84
>
> Witn the new mechanism, on load the UI queries the backend for a map of
> the osId->osUniqueNames and this
> is passed to the UI searchbackend instance to populate a class which
> does the auto completion.
>
> To make the search I18N I need to build a reverse lookup table for I18N
> labels -> uniqueOsName.
>
> Another option is to still search by unique name and to draw the tooltip
> of the completion with both the uniqeName and the I18N name:

search is not i18n today for everything else as well, so i would wait 
for a more global effort on this.