[libvirt] managedsave vs. transient domains

How in the world is managedsave supposed to work on transient domains? The moment you save a domain, the qemu process is ended; but ending the qemu process means that a transient domain no longer has any state tracked by libvirt. Should libvirt be temporarily defining a domain when creating a managedsave of a transient domain? Seeing as how persistent domains cannot be marked autostart, does this mean that you have to use 'virsh start dom' rather than autostart to restart a transient domain with managedsave state? Or should managedsave be prohibited on transient domains, and only exist as a possibility for persistent ones? After all, qemuDomainHasManagedSaveImage() will always return false for a running domain - a managed save state file only exists if you have shut down the domain into managed state file with plans to later start from that file. Personally, I'm leaning towards the latter - just like virDomainSetAutostart fails on transient domains, I think virDomainManagedSave should likewise fail on transient domains, and that applications that favor transient domains should also be managing state files themselves, via virDomainSave[Flags], rather than relying on virDomainManagedSave. -- Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org