On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:41:41AM -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
Assume I am working with virtual disk image files in /var/lib/libvirt/images such as removing a file, defining a new file (with qemi-img create or qemu-img convert), or simply copying a file ("cp") from elsewhere such as VMware. When I do this, Guest definition or adding hardware to an existing guest under virt- manager does not "see" the file change. That is, until I terminate virt- manager and restart /etc/init.d/libvirtd.
Is there some better/easier/less-disruptive means of notifying "whatever" that the list of files has changed?
You're looking for: virsh pool-refresh POOLNAME
I also notice that restarting libvirtd and/or terminating and restarting virt- manager while there are guests running really screws things up.
It should not have any ill-effects if you have libvirt >= 0.6.3. It is designed to be allowed to be restarted at any time & re-sync its state upon startup. NB, there should be no need to ever restart libvirtd for anything other than changes to /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf, or /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf. Everything else should be able to be handled via SIGUP (service libvirtd reload), or virsh commands like pool-refresh. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|