Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 02/12] Introduce new domain create API virDomainCreateWithParams

On Wednesday, 16 May 2018 18:31:26 CEST Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 06:21:40PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > > > > > On 05/16/2018 05:35 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:

> I could suggest a general arg 'virsh start --edit $GUESTNAME' though, > which takes the current persistent XML, launches it in an editor, > allowing the user to change the boot order and then starts the guest > from this temporary editted XML using virDomainCreateXML. This is a > conceptual fit with the 'virsh edit $GUESTNAME' command we already > have Another option could be instead to implement this "temporarly change & start" to another tool, that already does XML munging: virt-xml. In that context, adding options to edit the various bits makes sense, so only the "edit -> start -> revert" thing would be needed there. WDYT?

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