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-They are what to use for starting droplets with virsh,
-but for making a cluster or "home cloud" with virtigo
-
-When possible & sensible, use the same variable names as libvirt
-
-virtigo needs to coordinate all the virtual machine
-information centrally. The information in the libvirt xml
-files are imported into these protobuf definitions and
-passed around as protobufs
-
-virtigo recreates the libvirt xml files and calls
-'virsh create'
+these are .proto files. first stab. may be inaccurate
 
+writes out config files as protojson and prototext