Re: [Libvir] [RFC] Life-cycle Management of the domain take2
Daniel Veillard wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:59:37PM +0900, Saori Fukuta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for your comment !
>
> On Fri, 11 May 2007 13:33:57 +0100 "Richard W.M. Jones" wrote:
>> It sounds to me like the real solution would be to either fix
>> virDomainGetXMLDesc to return these missing fields, or add another call
>> to get them, or (for the password) to store it elsewhere.
>>
>> How about loading the original config XML and the XML from the running
>> domain (virDomainGetXMLDesc), and then updating the config XML with only
>> certain fields from the running domain?
> Well, I'm not sure about the meaning of "original config XML" but I do
> not think it is possible because the original config file might be not XML
> like a Xen config file. Xen does not have XML file.
> Is this right ?
Yes I'm not sure that in general you can always hope to reconstruct the
content of the configuration file just from a pointer to a running
instance,
OK, so the problem is two-fold then:
(1) libvirt virDomainGetXMLDesc should, if possible, return all the
fields from the original XML that was passed in virDomainDefineXML.
(2) If we just have a running instance, then perhaps not everything can
be retrieved, but virDomainGetXMLDesc ought to retrieve as much as
possible -- someone should file bugs for fields that they would like out
which could be available.
Is that right?
Rich.
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