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-the libvirt xml files are just a bit much at this point
-
 They are what to use for starting droplets with virsh,
-but for making a cluster or "home cloud" or something
-like virtigo, I think it's going to be better to do
-something simple. Anyway, this is that attmept.
+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'
 
-Nonetheless, when possible, use the same names as libvirt