Description of problem: It would be nice if virt-manager had a little icon next to fully-virt domains to designate them from para-virt domains at a glance. A simple icon would suffice.
The regular 'viDomainGetInfo' call we use to fetch CPU runtime stats in virt-manager already has info about the type of OS: [root@dhcp-4-245 ~]# virsh dominfo 26 Id: 26 Name: demo UUID: 66857c70-9898-fdfc-ed53-8eee3ba294bf OS Type: linux State: blocked CPU(s): 1 CPU time: 372.3s Max memory: 419840 kB Used memory: 419620 kB [root@dhcp-4-245 ~]# virsh dominfo 27 Id: 27 Name: rhel4x86_64 UUID: 6c41378b-896e-1117-f8b6-ebc7628e0d1b OS Type: hvm State: blocked CPU(s): 1 CPU time: 4.5s Max memory: 533680 kB Used memory: 525488 kB So should be easy to add another column to the main list to show a different icon for HVM vs Linux paravirt.
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Decided that having an icon for represent HVM guests is not useful long term. There is no longer any clear distinction between paravirt & fullvirt, with the concepts converging to a large degree. So we'd just end up with the same icon repeated over & over