On 03/18/2015 03:47 AM, Deepak Shetty wrote: > I spent quite some time figuring that backingStore info > isn't included in the dom xml, unless guest is up and > running. Hopefully putting that in the doc should help. > > This patch adds that info to the doc. > > Signed-off-by: Deepak C Shetty <deepakcs(a)redhat.com&gt; > --- > docs/formatdomain.html.in | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in > index ab51982..dfd4f3a 100644 > --- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in > +++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in > @@ -2113,7 +2113,9 @@ > and only used for output to describe the detected backing chains. > <span class="since">Since 1.2.4</span>. An empty > <code>backingStore</code> element means the sibling source is > - self-contained and is not based on any backing store. The following > + self-contained and is not based on any backing store. Note that > + <code>backingStore</code> info is included in the output only when > + the guest is up and running, otherwise its not included. The s/its/it's/ > following We aim to fix that in the future (that is, eventually libvirt will track backing information even for offline domains), but until that happens, I can agree with documenting the limitation. I will touch this up and push it later today.

-- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org