[libvirt-users] Re: Performance tuning questions for mail server

On 10/10/2011 03:52 PM, Alex wrote: >I made this change by editing the xml, restarting libvirtd, then using >virsh to define the xml file and received this message:

>Have I done something wrong, or am I missing something? Yes, you goofed by directly editing /etc/libvirt. By doing that, you are going behind libvirt's back - if your edits happen to work, then a libvirtd restart will use them, but if you introduce a typo or other problem, then it is your fault that libvirt can't get things to work. If you had instead gone through the libvirt API (such as by using 'virsh edit bwimail02'), then libvirt would do some sanity checking up front and refuse to install your changes unless they were safe.