Re: [Libvir] Re: [PATCH] Python bindings now generate exceptions for libvirt errors (third version)

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 03:13:28PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:07:32AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > If the fact of being inactive is only represented internally by having > > id == -1 then we probably made a mistake, we should have > > domain->flags & DOMAIN_IS_DEFINED > > bit set. > > We already have a state flag for it > > VIR_DOMAIN_SHUTOFF > > which is set in virDomainInfoPtr, we can fix virt-manager not to call get_id > if the domain is shutdown. It would be nice though if each time you look whether the domain is defined or not, libvirt could give teh answer directly instead of going though the potentially expensive Info call. This would also require to double check invalidation of the _virDomain cached data at the proper places.