Re: [libvirt] some unsorted questions
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:29:45AM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote:
Secondly; I am a bit distracted by the domids concept. These ids are
not
available before a domain is launched. I think it would be interesting
to allow signed values. In this way the 'defined' not active domains
would get a negative value and a running domain a positive value. (Dom0
gets 0) This would have far less implications than using an uuid
through the codebase consistently (not speaking the about the extra
overhead).
There are 3 identifiers for domains
- ID - unique amongst all running domains on a hypervisor
- Name - unique amongst all domains on a hypervisor
- UUID - unique amongst all domains in a datacenter
So if you want to track inactive domains, you have a choice of name or
UUID. The recommendation is always that applications use UUID to track
domains internally. Name should mostly be used when interacting with a
user, not for internal application tracking.
Daniel
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