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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 06:13:11AM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:46:50 +0000
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> > It should show one <operatingsystem> section containing an <icon>.
> 
> That works, and the "Overview" page in the info window
> when I open a virtual machine does have text to correctly
> identify the operating system, but I haven't yet seen
> anything actually display the icon :-).

<icon> appears in the XML output of virt-inspector or not?  The <icon>
in the XML should be a base64-encoded PNG file.

virt-manager gets the data from exactly the same place as
virt-inspector does, ie. from the libguestfs inspection API:

  http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#inspection

Rich.

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