On 22/02/2011, at 8:21 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:12:03PM +0800, Lyre wrote: <snip>
I'm really amazed, the behavior of "defined" in libvirt development guide seems to be equivalent to "inactive".
There are two types of guest
- Persistent: This has a config file on disk. It will appear either in the ListDefinedDomains or ListDomains, depending on whether it is currently running - Transient: This has *no* config on disk. It will only appear in ListDomains and will disappear completely when it is shutdown.
Every inactive domain is thus a persistent domain. A running domain can be either transient or persistent. There is a virDomainIsPersistent() API to distinguish them.
This *might* be useful further reading info: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/VM_lifecycle#Transient_guest_domains_vs_Persist...