For some configs where FD passing is used, we cannot generate a corresponding native config without writing extra code just for domxml-to-native. Add a disclaimer to the API documentation and the virsh man page. Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko(a)redhat.com&gt; --- docs/manpages/virsh.rst | 2 ++ src/libvirt-domain.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/manpages/virsh.rst b/docs/manpages/virsh.rst index 20936994ce..673dc8f434 100644 --- a/docs/manpages/virsh.rst +++ b/docs/manpages/virsh.rst @@ -2532,6 +2532,8 @@ Convert the file *xml* into domain XML format or convert an existing *--domain* to the native guest configuration format named by *format*. The *xml* and *--domain* arguments are mutually exclusive. For the types of *format* argument, refer to ``domxml-from-native``. +Note that some domain configs cannot be converted to the native format, +because they rely on passing pre-opened file descriptors. dump diff --git a/src/libvirt-domain.c b/src/libvirt-domain.c index 4eb14d4176..156939fe22 100644 --- a/src/libvirt-domain.c +++ b/src/libvirt-domain.c @@ -2675,6 +2675,9 @@ virConnectDomainXMLFromNative(virConnectPtr conn, * a native configuration file describing the domain. * The format of the native data is hypervisor dependent. * + * Note that some configs cannot be converted to the native format, + * because they rely on passing pre-opened file descriptors. + * * Returns a 0 terminated UTF-8 encoded native config datafile, or * NULL in case of error. The caller must free() the returned value. */ -- 2.31.1