[pve-devel] [RFC PATCH cluster/guest-common/qemu-server/container/manager] add backend profile support

[Dominik Csapak]

small correction inline:

On 11/6/23 09:17, Dominik Csapak wrote:
[snip]
>>> We could also go in a completely different direction and create a config
>>> per profile? (like we handle vm configs). Downside of that is, that the
>>> current guest config handling part is partly in pmxcfs, so we'd have to
>>> make that either more generic, or duplicate it for profiles.
>>
>> I don't see how this would have anything to do with pmxcfs and VMIDs,
>> that map to an actual guest instance and thus needs special treatment
>> compared to just some profile that can, e.g., live in a
>> /etc/pve/guest-profiles/  as <id>.profile (the extension just an
>> example), and be handled only via perl – profiles are only used in
>> the profile management API, where it's ok to fully parse one, and
>> in guest creation POST calls, so even cfs_register* would be probably
>> overkill.
> 
> you're right, i did not explain right what i meant. We currently do
> somethings in pmxcfs for vm configs (e.g. read/write/list) and

i don't mean ofc that the read/write itself is implemented in pmxcfs, but
is special handled in pve-cluster (e.g. by registering '/qemu-server/'
as the file). The parser/writer is still perl..

sry for the bad wording