[Libvir] update after changing XML
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Tue Jan 29 16:26:05 UTC 2008
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:20:06AM -0500, Maxwell Bottiger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I changed some of the XML for a qemu virtual machine. The original
> file was generated by virt-manager, but I wanted to use bridged
> networking as described in the documentation on the libvirt website. Is
> there something I need to for my xml changes to show up in the virtual
> machine? Right now my VM will not start because it's looking for it's
> old network configuration.
Rather than editing XML files directly, I recommend using 'virsh define'
to load a new copy into libvirt. This ensures its visible immediately.
If you do edit it directly, then you need to send SIGHUP to the libvirt
daemon - 'service libvirtd reload' will do this
Dan.
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