Re: [Libvir] Tricky provisioning problem with inactive domains

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 08:57:33PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 14:14 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > 3. We could just use virDomainCreate() to start installer, and try to > > use virDomainDefine() to write the long term config - the latter > > call will fail though because there will already be a running guest > > with that name. > > I think I'd expect to be able to call virDomainDefine() to change an > active domain's config without affecting it until it restarts. In fact a little good news. I've just re-checked Xen 3.0.4 and this does indeed work. You can start a guest, and then change its config at will using virDomainDefine. Its just my hand-crafted 3.0.3 inactive domain driver which doesn't let this work - which I can trivially fix. So this thread looks like it may in fact be a non-issue.