[Libvir] [patch 5/9] Add autostart support to virsh

[Karel Zak]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 07:26:24PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 11:04:53AM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > Add "autostart" and "net-autostart" commands
> > 
> > Also, cleanup the "list" and "net-list" commands a bit
> > and add autostart info to them
> 
> I'm wondering whether we need to think about compatability for the virsh
> commands. We've previously discussed issues around output format stability
> but never really came up against the issue until now. My concern would be
> someone grok'ing the 'virsh list' output and now suddenly getting an extra
> data item at the end of the line.
> 
> I think it's probably sufficient to just add the autostart flag display
> to the 'virsh dominfo' command, and not the 'list' command - its not the
> kind of data you need to see all that often, so I think we could leave 
> it out of the 'list' command. If we were to extend the output of 'list'
> I reckon I'd prioritise 'memory' and 'vcpu count' above autostart.

 I'd like to extend usability of the list command (probably together
 with my work on "virsh top" patche).

    virsh list [ --columns=colname1,colnameN | --sort=colname ]

 this functionality will be there for the top command and I think we
 can reuse it for the list command too.

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak at redhat.com>