Re: [libvirt-users] xl extra parameters equivalent for libvirt

On 05/18/2015 11:35 AM, Emma Anderson wrote: > hi, > > I use xl toolstack to manage vms on a Xen machine, and also pass some > custom parameters when creating a vm, for example: > > xl create vm.cfg ' param="xyz" ' Documentation on create subcommand in the xl man page describes the 'key=value' options as key=value It is possible to pass key=value pairs on the command line to provide options as if they were written in the configuration file; these override whatever is in the configfile. > > I am moving to libvirt for vm management. How I can pass those extra > parameters using libvirt? I'm not aware of similar functionality in libvirt. You would need to customize the domXML before feeding it to 'virsh create'.