[libvirt] Safe? /etc/libvirt/qemu on shared storage?

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/02/2009 12:00 PM, James Brackinshaw wrote:
>> If you're going to have a cluster of hosts between which you can move
>> guests, you should really aim to store all your master configs elsewhere
>> in shared storage, and either use transient guests (which have no
>> config in /etc/libvirt), or persistent guests and only have configs in
>> /etc/libvirt for the guests which happens to be running on that node
>
> So transient doesn't store the configs in /etc/libvirt - where are
> they stored?

In memory only.

> and what happens if the guest is shutdown?

It just goes away.  You can try using "virsh create" instead of "virsh 
define" + "virsh start".

Paolo