[fedora-virt] What the heck are the guestfs-yaddayadda... virtual machines?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 07:54:19PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:35:22 +0000
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> > It looks at each guest (at most once) in order to determine what OS it
> > contains, which should result in a nice little OS icon next to each
> > guest plus some extra information in various dialogs.
> 
> OK, that sort of explains it, but I see a lot more than N log entries
> for these things than the N virtual machines I have. Is the "at most
> once" each time I start virt-manager, or boot the system, or what?

Once per run of virt-manager.  There is a possibility that we should
cache the information between runs, but it's not been implemented.

Rich.

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