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@redhat.com> --- 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
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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