Re: [Libvir] Semantics for ListDomains/ ListDefinedDomains
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 07:16:45PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
So I was thinking a little about lifecycle support for passive
domains in
libvirt and wanted to clarify the intended semantics of the two methods:
virConnectListDomains
virConnectListDefinedDomains
Am I correct in thinking that virConnectListDefinedDomains will list a
domain if-and-only-if its state == 'shutoff', and that virConnectListDomains
will list a domain if-and-only-if its state != 'shutoff'
yes
ie, when I start a defined domain with 'virDomainCreate', it
will be removed
from the 'ListDefinedDomains' set and added to the 'ListDomains' set.
Likewise when shutting down it'll move back the other way. Or will the
virConnectListDefinedDomains call always list a domain with a config
file, even if it is running ?
I expected to have 2 disjoint sets, a partition.
I realize this is a little hypothetical since XenD doesn't have
lifecycle
management yet, but it matters to the test backend, and any potential
QEMU / UML backend, and the future XenD XML-RPC backend
I was tempted to do an implementation just local to the library instance
in the case there is no support by the virtualization engine. If you think
you will use it then I should really implement it :-)
Daniel
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