[et-mgmt-tools] [PATCH] virtinst - virt-convert vmware output

[Cole Robinson]

Joey Boggs wrote:
> John Levon wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:28:04PM -0400, Joey Boggs wrote:
>>
>>   
>>>> +import virtinst.ImageParser as ImageParser
>>>> +from virtinst.cli import fail
>>>>
>>>> Surely this isn't right - this code is "library" code and shouldn't be
>>>> using fail() ? It should be re-raising the exception...
>>>>       
>>> Not sure about this, all the other apps in virtinst use fail() now in 
>>> exceptions even virt-convert, or am I misunderstanding something?
>>>     
>> I just grepped and didn't see that. The only fail() usages are in
>> virtinst/cli.py. That's right and proper: library code like that in
>> virtconv/ (or most of virtinst/) should raise exceptions to allow the
>> caller to decide the correct behaviour (if I'm a daemon, I'd better keep
>> running; a GUI, I'd better bring up a dialog box, etc.).
>>   
> Cole updated it only a few days ago, here's what I'm seeing at least:
> 
>  grep -r "fail(" virt-convert
> 
>         fail("Couldn't clean up output directory \"%s\": %s" %
>         fail("Couldn't import file \"%s\": %s" %
>         fail("Couldn't import file \"%s\": %s" % (options.input_file, e))
>             fail("Could not create directory %s: %s" %
> 

'fail' should only be called from command line apps, hence you will
see it in the virt-* utils and virtinst/cli.py. The reason it
shouldn't be used anywhere else is because it forces the app to
exit. You don't want to do that from a library (aka most of
virtinst/* and all of virtconv/*) because it leaves the higher
level apps no way to deal with the error.

> 
>> It's a fine restriction, but it seems inconsistent: why are we assuming
>> that virt-image import is using SCSI? Wouldn't a better default be IDE?
>>
>> regards
>> john
>>   
> Never caught that, I always assumed the disks were scsi, are they not? 
> virt image isn't specific so I'm guessing we will need someone else to 
> chime in and clarify this.
> 

If there isn't any specific mention of IDE or SCSI in the
virt-image file, then it will end up using virtinst's
default, which is IDE for fullvirt guests and xvda for
paravirt.

Thanks,
Cole