[Fedora-xen] virt-manager and guest config file

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Jun 7 14:31:47 UTC 2007


mathieu rohon wrote:
> Great, thanks for your answer Daniel.
> 
> So the following logical question is : How can I modify my guests 
> parameters? let's say, add usb support for example?

Using virsh, you can do this on an inactive (not running) domain:

   virsh dumpxml DOMAINNAME > guest.xml
   vi guest.xml
   virsh define guest.xml

or if you've got a really recent version of virsh and you want to just 
attach a device to a running domain, try the 'virsh attach-device' command.

> More generally, can you tell me where this is documented?

The XML is documented here:
http://libvirt.org/format.html

Rich.

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