Re: [libvirt] Proposed functionality: API to extract host description from saved state, restore with modified XML
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:17:50PM -0500, Charles Duffy wrote:
Would a patch adding API calls to
- return the XML description of a saved host, given the name
- restore a saved host with a different description
be considered welcome?
As I understand it, yes & yes.
I presume that to maintain backwards compatibility, the latter would
be
expected to be exposed to clients via a new call, rather than adding a
parameter to virDomainRestore(); in communicating with the drivers, on
the other hand, my first instinct would be to add an extra parameter to
virDrvDomainRestore.
Yes, you cannot change the public API in a non-compatible way. So
adding a new API call is the only option as I understand it.
You can change internal interfaces as much as you want.
Rich.
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