[Libvir] just a question about virDomainLookupByName function
An ID may be passed to virDomainLookupByName function. In exemple: virDomainLookupByName(conn, "1") is equivalent to virDomainLookupByID(conn, 1) This functionality is very useful but isn't written in the libvirt documentation. Is this functionality will continue to exist in future versions of libvirt or not ? Thanks, Philippe Berthault.
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:00:47PM +0200, Philippe Berthault wrote:
An ID may be passed to virDomainLookupByName function. In exemple: virDomainLookupByName(conn, "1") is equivalent to virDomainLookupByID(conn, 1)
humm ... bizarre, I never noticed that :-)
This functionality is very useful but isn't written in the libvirt documentation.
Is this functionality will continue to exist in future versions of libvirt or not ?
Well, I'm afraid it may be a specific property of the interface to xend used, I honnestly don't know why this worked, this wasn't expected. I would not rely on it, and also depending on the available interfaces virDomainLookupByName and virDomainLookupByID could be really expensive or really cheap, they don't have the same properties, also IDs can change for example if you do save and restore operations of a domain. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
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