[libvirt] JAVA .start() method

Bryan Kearney bkearney at redhat.com
Tue Feb 2 16:22:49 UTC 2010


On 02/02/2010 05:44 AM, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> 2010/2/2 Marc Gonzalez Mateo<marcg at ac.upc.edu>:
>> Good morning,
>>
>> Testing the new java version (0.4.1) I've noticed that there's no .start()
>> method to start a defined or shuted down domain.
>>
>> Are you working on it or is it a minor feature not to be considered?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>
> Why do you think there should be a method called start?
>
> The Java bindings bind the C API, not the virsh commands. The C API
> function to start a domain is called virDomainCreate. The Java
> bindings bind this function to the create method of the Domain class.
>
> Matthias


As Matthias has said, these are tracking the C API. Having said that, 
where in the doco would you have liked to have seen this? I will agree 
that create is not an obvious word to look for if all you have seen is 
the virsh api.

-- bk




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