[Libvir] Re: [et-mgmt-tools] ANNOUNCE: virt-viewer release 0.0.1

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 04:10:52PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>   Hi,
>>
>>> To connect to the guest with ID 7 running under QEMU
>>>
>>>    virt-viewer --connect qemu:///system 7
>> Can we *please* think about a standardized environment variable to set
>> the default for --connect and which all tools are looking at?
> 
> Yes, this would be useful.
> 
>> virsh has VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI for that.
>>
>> I'd like to have *one* variable used by *all* libvirt-based tools,
>> virt-viewer, virt-manager, virsh, ...  We could simply reuse the virsh
>> variable, or we could pick some other name without virsh in there,
>> preferable also shorter and thus easier to remember.  VIRT_URI maybe?
> 
> We should probably apply the change to libvirt, so that if 'NULL' is used
> for the connect URI for virConnectOpen, and VIRT_CONNECT_URI is set, then
> NULL gets substituted with the value of the env variable.

Very good idea.

Rich.

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