[Users] ovirt VM custom properties

[Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare)]

Thanks Andy,
I was afraid that might be case ;)
I'll check out the examples and see what I can come up with.
- Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Cathrow [mailto:acathrow at redhat.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 3:29 PM
To: Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare)
Cc: users at ovirt.org
Subject: Re: [Users] ovirt VM custom properties



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Brown (GE Healthcare)" <Christopher.Brown at med.ge.com>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 4:16:35 PM
> Subject: [Users] ovirt VM custom properties
> 
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> In an effort to work around the mouse issues with spice consoles and 
> certain guests I had an idea for the time being.
> 
> My thought process is to leverage custom properties to enable 
> usb-tablet support on said guests.
> 
> --> (
> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.
> 0/html/Administration_Guide/VDSM_Hooks.html
> )
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> 
> I perused the available documentation and it appears that these custom 
> properties are ultimately fed into the generated libvirt domain xml.
> 
> Thus sifting through -->
> http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsInput we can pass in:
> 
> <devices>
> 
> <input type='tablet' bus='usb'/ id='input0'>
> 
> </devices>
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> 
> The issue I am hung up on is that since this contains multi-level 
> elements can this even be specified as a custom property?

The custom property wouldn't contain the XML it would contain data you want to pass to a hook script eg. addTablet=true, then it's down to your hook script to add the appropriate element to the device node in the libvirt xml.
There's a number of good examples in the vdsm git repo.


> 
> If so can one of the ovirt developers provide an example on how to go 
> about it?


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> - Chris
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