Re: [libvirt-users] Updating Multiple VM Guests?

From: Laine Stump <laine(a)laine.org&gt; Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] Updating Multiple VM Guests? To: libvirt-users(a)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 :-)