2010/3/24 <steven765@yahoo.com>:

I keep getting an error when I try to attach a device in the libvirt api through python

The python code is:

    conn=libvirt.open('qemu:///system')     dom = conn.lookupByName("fedoratest")     if dom.info()[0]==1:         dom.attachDevice('net.xml')

And I keep getting: "libvirtError: XML description not well formed or invalid

  The xml is a simple network card that works fine in virsh. It is just: #cat net.xml <interface type='network'>           <mac address='52:54:00:00:fe:5c'/>           <source network-'default'/>

Your XML is really not well formed. This <source network-'default'/> should be <source network='default'/>

           target dev='vnet1'/>

And you miss a < before the word target: target dev='vnet1'/> should be <target dev='vnet1'/>

</interface>

I've tired giving it the full path still no luck. Thanks in advance,

Matthias