On 03/23/2015 03:54 PM, Brian Rak wrote:
On 23.03.2015 16:02, Fiorenza Meini wrote:
Hi there, I'm running KVM under Openstack .
When I give virsh list command, I see some VM in NON persistent state. What does it mean? How can I move it to a persisten state ? You can do that by running:
virsh dumpxml $dom > dom.xml && virsh define dom.xml You want `virsh dumpxml --security-info $dom`, not just `virsh dumpxml`. There is a *critical* difference in that the former will
On 3/23/2015 12:49 PM, Michal Privoznik wrote: preserve any passwords you have set (like say, VNC) whereas the latter will not. This is sadly not very obvious.
VNC passwords are the ONLY thing protected by --security-info, and as it is, they are not all that secure to begin with (8-byte maximum, transferred in plaintext in the protocol). Spice security is much better, and also not impacted by the limitation on preserving passwords. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org