On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:00:47PM +0200, Philippe Berthault wrote: humm ... bizarre, I never noticed that :-) Well, I'm afraid it may be a specific property of the interface to xend used, I honnestly don't know why this worked, this wasn't expected. I would not rely on it, and also depending on the available interfaces virDomainLookupByName and virDomainLookupByID could be really expensive or really cheap, they don't have the same properties, also IDs can change for example if you do save and restore operations of a domain. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/