On 08/20/2012 02:17 AM, Laine Stump wrote:
I would like to enhance libvirt's network API to allow enacting any changes in definition immediately, as an alternative to the current behavior of saving the changes right away, but not using them until the next time the network is destroyed and re-started.
This could easily be handled by a flag passed to virNetworkDefineXML(). Unfortunately, virNetworkDefineXML() was added to libvirt before we came up with the idea of adding a flags arg to every new API (just for things like this). To remedy this, I've effectively duplicated that API with a new API, virNetworkDefineXMLFlags(), which currently behaves identically, but has an extra "flags" argument.
danpb has convinced me that it's better not to overload virNetworkDefine in this way, but instead to have a separate API similar to virDomain(Attach|Update|Detach)Device, so I'm withdrawing this patch, and will post a query in a separate thread about these new APIs.