From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nt3TX-0006fB-MQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:32:43 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47295 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nt3TX-0006f3-Bh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:32:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nt3TU-0000ZV-5p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:32:43 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:48943) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nt3TT-0000ZO-Q6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:32:40 -0400 Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:32:35 +0000 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio block device and sysfs Message-ID: <20100320183235.GA28108@amd.home.annexia.org> References: <20100306224234.GA1145@torres.zugschlus.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100306224234.GA1145@torres.zugschlus.de> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Marc Haber Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 11:42:34PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > My goal is to have a possibility to give a "speaking" name to any > block device handed into a guest instance by the host. That name > should be visible inside the guest, just as a LV is visible with its > name in the system running the LVM. At the risk of AOLing this old thread, /me too would like to see this. It would significantly improve the reliability of mapping libguestfs files to devices. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora