On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08:10:21PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
Yes, the documentation is wrong - all inactive VMs have an ID of -1, and thus lookup-by-ID is nonsensical for inactive VMs.
If any application did make use of this change which falls back to lookup-by-name, then it would only ever work with OpenVZ and not any of the other libvirt drivers, which isn't useful behaviour.
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Then the virLookupById description must be updated, I'm not against it, but we need to be coherent.
Indeed, the docs need to be clarified.
okay, what about * Try to find a domain based on the hypervisor ID number * Note that this won't work for inactive domains which have an ID of -1, * in that case a lookup based on the Name or UUId need to be done instead. and then revert that specific part of the patch, as attached. Also I would make a 'make rebuild' in the doc directory and push the doc update Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/