On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 06:56:30PM +0100, Gionatan Danti wrote:

Hi all, as you surely know, after changing some domain parameters via libvirt (ie: NIC type), the guest need to be shutdown and restarted. A simple reboot will not be sufficient, as libvirt will not launch a new qemu domain (ie: the same qemu process will be in charge to start the new guest instance).

It is possible to configure libvirt to start a new qemu domain on guest reboot? Can the <on_reboot> domain attribute be used for implementing something similar?

With the current impl this is not possible. From a technical POV though it is possible to extend libvirt to have a <on_reboot>recreate</on_reboot> option which would kill QEMU & recreate it with the new config. Basically just needs someone motivated to write the code... Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|