--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Laine Stump <laine@laine.org> wrote:
From: Laine Stump <laine@laine.org> Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] Updating Multiple VM Guests? To: libvirt-users@redhat.com Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 12:41 PM On 11/10/2010 11:59 AM, Kenneth Stailey wrote:
Hi,
The libvirt.org FAQ says that "virsh edit" is the recommended way of updating the libvirt xml.
If a change has to be made to many VMs "virsh edit" is tedious, time-consuming and likely to be prone to careless errors.
Is there a command line approach to updating multiple VMs?
How about:
for g in guest1 guest2 guest3 guest4; do virsh dumpxml --inactive $g
/tmp/g.xml # do whatever sed/etc commands you want here virsh define /tmp/g.xml done
(or something like that, anyway :-)
The "sed, etc." is a mistake since XML does not have guaranteed format. I suppose XMLStarlet could be used. http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/