On 03/18/2015 07:48 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 | 7 ++++++- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) I hope you don't mind that I took liberty with your wording, and added myself as a second signoff. Here's the text that I committed: This element describes the backing store used by the disk specified by sibling <code>source</code> element. It is currently ignored on input and only used for output to describe the detected backing chains of running domains <span class="since">since 1.2.4</span> (although a future version of libvirt may start accepting chains on input, or output information for offline domains). An empty <code>backingStore</code> element means the sibling source is self-contained and is not based on any backing store. For backing chain information to be accurate, the backing format must be correctly specified in the metadata of each file of the chain (files created by libvirt satisfy this property, but using existing external files for snapshot or block copy operations requires the end user to pre-create the file correctly). The following attributes and sub-elements are supported in <code>backingStore</code>:

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