Re: [libvirt-users] renaming a domain
On 10/24/2011 11:31 AM, Roberto Attias (rattias) wrote:
Hello,
In my system a VM with a given domain name is defined and started. At a
certain point I will define and start a new VM, with a different name. I
then want to dispose of the old VM and rename the new one to the old
one. Unfortunately I didn't find any API to do the last step. Is it
possible to change the domain name of a running VM?
Not currently, short of migrating the VM twice and using the
rename-on-migration feature (which ends up creating a new qemu process,
rather than reusing the existing one). But the request has been made in
the past, and if someone were willing to write patches, they would
likely be accepted.
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Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org